Synzoochory is the dispersal of seeds by seed-caching animals. The animal partner in this
interaction plays a dual role, acting both as seed disperser and seed predator. We propose …

This chapter evaluates the role of endozoochory on seed germination and reviews the
information gathered on germination patterns in experiments aimed at examining the effect …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

The Neotropics have many plant species that seem to be adapted for seed dispersal by
megafauna that went extinct in the late Pleistocene. Given the crucial importance of seed …

Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently
facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures …

Many studies of postdispersal seed fate use seed removal as an index of seed predation.
However, following primary seed dispersal, some seeds are transported intact by ants, dung …

DNA microsatellites provide plant ecologists with molecular markers precise enough to
assign parentage to seeds and seedlings. This allows the exact distance and trajectory of …

Recording species interactions is one of the main challenges in ecological studies.
Frugivory has received much attention for decades as a model for mutualisms among free …

Zoochory is an ecologically and evolutionarily important seed dispersal type. The decline
and extinction of seed-dispersing large herbivores severely threatens dispersal-driven …

Seed tagging is widely used for tracking seeds during dispersal by seed-caching animals.
No studies, however, have fully examined the effects of seed tagging on post-dispersal seed …