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Claim · model-written summary
Fox squirrels may compensate through seed dispersal in watersheds without gray squirrels.
- Taxon
- nut-bearing deciduous treese1
- Interactor
- fox squirrels
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Sciurus nigere0herbivore - Outcome
- disperse seedse0
- Qualifier
- likelye0
Verbatim
e0“This is likely because fox squirrels, which were widespread and are tolerant of fragmentation, are able to disperse seeds in these areas.”
e1“nut-bearing deciduous trees”
Title
Ecology of animal-mediated seed dispersal in the fragmented central hardwoods region
Jeffrey E. Moore Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) 2005
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Eastern gray squirrels were absent from small or isolated patches and sites over 15 km from large riparian forests.
- Intervention effect Excluding Sciurus lowered seed survival compared with access by squirrels.
- Observation Seedling recruitment was not reduced where eastern gray squirrels were absent.
- Association Seed survival was extremely low in low-production years.
- Association Seed survival was higher and varied by seed type in high-production years.
- Association Rodents dispersed seeds farther in seed-poor than seed-rich years.
- Association Rodents dispersed more energy-rich food items farther.
- Method / resource Seed removal rate did not adequately index seed predation rate.
Quercus