Keyword

seed predation

Description: Seed predation is an ecological interaction in which animals consume plant seeds, potentially affecting seed survival, dispersal, and recruitment.

Primary topic: Plant and animal studies (22%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q22690250

OpenAlex ID: keywords/seed-predation

Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1970 · Daniel H. Janzen · The American Naturalist · 4,775

The Maintenance of Species‐richness in Plant Communities: the Importance of the Regeneration Niche

1977 · P. J. GRUBB · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 4,406

Seed Predation by Animals

1971 · Daniel H. Janzen · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 2,014

Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities.

1993 · J. Silvertown, M. Fenner · Journal of Ecology · 1,770

Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments

2001 · John Terborgh, Lawrence Lopez, et al. · Science · 1,653

Seeds: the ecology of regeneration in plant communities

2000 · CABI Publishing eBooks · 1,063

Tropical Blackwater Rivers, Animals, and Mast Fruiting by the Dipterocarpaceae

1974 · Daniel H. Janzen · Biotropica · 918

The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant–Plant Mutualisms

1985 · Andrew James Beattie · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 879

Euglossine Bees as Long-Distance Pollinators of Tropical Plants

1971 · D. H. Janzen · Science · 759

Seed‐seedling Conflicts, Habitat Choice, and Patterns of Plant Recruitment

1995 · Eugene W. Schupp · American Journal of Botany · 701

Staggered Flowering in the Dipterocarpaceae: New Insights Into Floral Induction and the Evolution of Mast Fruiting in the Aseasonal Tropics

1988 · P. S. Ashton, T. J. Givnish, et al. · The American Naturalist · 680

Tropical Montane Forest Restoration in Costa Rica: Overcoming Barriers to Dispersal and Establishment

2000 · Karen D. Holl, Michael E. Loik, et al. · Restoration Ecology · 641

Seed‐eaters Versus Seed Size, Number, Toxicity and Dispersal

1969 · Daniel H. Janzen · Evolution · 632

Control of a Desert-Grassland Transition by a Keystone Rodent Guild

1990 · James H. Brown, Edward J. Heske · Science · 623

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

2008 · Janet M. Wilmshurst, Atholl J. Anderson, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 541

Evolutionary Aspects of Fruit‐eating by Birds

1971 · D. W. Snow · Ibis · 540

Seed predators and plant population dynamics.

2000 · M. J. Crawley · CABI Publishing eBooks · 533

Experimental Studies of Seedling Recruitment from Contrasting Seed Distributions

1992 · Carol K. Augspurger, Kaoru Kitajima · Ecology · 519

Why Alien Invaders Succeed: Support for the Escape‐from‐Enemy Hypothesis

2002 · Lorne M. Wolfe · The American Naturalist · 498

Reproductive Synchrony of a Tropical Shrub: Experimental Studies on Effects of Pollinators and Seed Predators in Hybanthus Prunifolius (Violaceae)

1981 · Carol K. Augspurger · Ecology · 493

Insect ecology: an ecosystem approach

2012 · Choice Reviews Online · 490

Early Consequences of Seed Dispersal for a Neotropical Tree (Virola surinamensis)

1985 · H. F. Howe, E. W. Schupp, et al. · Ecology · 463

Insect Herbivores Drive Real-Time Ecological and Evolutionary Change in Plant Populations

2012 · Anurag A. Agrawal, Amy P. Hastings, et al. · Science · 457

Jays and Oaks: an Eco-Ethological Study of a Symbiosis

1979 · I. Bossema · Behaviour · 456

Annual Variability in Seed Production by Woody Plants and the Masting Concept: Reassessment of Principles and Relationship to Pollination and Seed Dispersal

1998 · Carlos M. Herrera, Pedro Jordano, et al. · The American Naturalist · 443

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