Plants produce nutritious, fleshy fruits that attract various animals to facilitate seed dispersal
and recruitment dynamic. Species‐specific differential selection of seed size by multiple …

Scatter-hoarding rodents are important seed predators and dispersers in various forest
ecosystems and significantly influence the seed fate and seedling regeneration of many tree …

Small mammals such as mice and voles play a fundamental role in the ecosystem service of
seed dispersal by caching seeds in small hoards that germinate under beneficial conditions …

The megafaunal seed dispersal hypothesis posits that mega-fruits co-evolved for seed
dispersal by extremely large mammals, such as elephant-like gomphotheres, which became …

Animals that experience a food-scarce season can supplement their diet by scatterhoarding,
or burying food around their home range, and then retrieving and consuming those food …

Optimal cache spacing theory predicts that scatter-hoarding animals cache seeds at a
density that balances the gains of reducing cache pilferage with the costs of transporting …

Conspecific adults impose strong negative density‐dependent effects on seed survival
nearby parent trees, however, the underlying mechanisms are diversified and remain …

Scatter‐hoarding rodents play important roles in plant regeneration and species coexistence
in many forest ecosystems. Cache pilferage, the behavior of rodents seeking or relocating …

Seed dormancy has been thought to be an important survival strategy to tune the seed
dispersal timing. Although a theoretical trade-off between seed dormancy and dispersal is …

Personality, or the tendency for individuals to behave consistently, has been observed
throughout the animal kingdom and is known to have key ecological and evolutionary …