Rodents Rescue Seeds from Aborted Fruits
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Photo 1: Flowering P. bourgaeana trees (upper left), fruiting pear tree right), aborted fruit (lower and one several ripe developed fruits right). credit: Miguel Delibes Jose M. Fedriani (all other panels). 2: Some of the rodent species involved in our study concerning seed predation dispersal by rodents; Algerian mouse Mus spretus garden dormouse Eliomys quercinus wood Apodemus sylvaticus, Fedriani. 3: Dry line) fleshy line; upper left panel). gnawed rodents likely eaten rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus left). Fleshy green partially deer Cervus elaphus when still attached to Gemma Calvo. 4: Field experiments investigate foraging on fruits. The “tables” allowed us prevent consumption frugivores such as rabbits, carnivores ungulates. 5: Other mammals that feed but not ones. Red C. wild boar Sus scrofa Eurasian badger Meles meles red fox Vulpes vulpes Pedro J. Garrote. These photographs illustrate article “The overlooked benefits synzoochory: rescue seeds from fruits” Fedriani, Calvo, Delibes, Daniel Ayllón, Garrote published Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3298.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0012-9623', '2327-6096']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1823