Claim · model-written summary
With limited fruit, more low-quality dispersal reduced overall recruitment.
- Taxon
- Corema album
Corema albume1 - Treatment
- increased dispersal of lower quality disperserse0
- Outcome
- overall recruitmente0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- limited fruitse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with limited fruits, increased dispersal of lower quality dispersers reduced overall recruitment.”
e1“the shrub Corema album (Empetraceae)”
Title
Effectiveness of a varied assemblage of seed dispersers of a fleshy‐fruited plant
María Calviño-Cancela; Julio Martín-Herrero Ecology 2009. doi:10.1890/08-1629.1
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Method / resource The model tracked animal-dispersed seeds and estimated disperser-specific seedling contributions.
- Observation Larus michahellis was the most effective disperser in two of three habitats.
- Mechanism T. merula effectiveness was limited mainly by deposition patterns.
- Mechanism O. cuniculus effectiveness was limited mainly by harmful effects on seedling emergence.
- Observation Gulls accounted for 90% of recruitment in sparse scrub.
- Association Dispersal quantity and quality were uncorrelated.
- Association Dispersal quality better predicted effectiveness.
- Association Seedling emergence explained 99.8% of the spatial pattern variance.
- Association Seedling emergence explained 43-83% of within-microhabitat recruitment quantity.
- Intervention effect More dispersal improved recruitment for all dispersers when fruits were unlimited.