Mutualisms are foundational components of ecosystems with the capacity to generate
biodiversity through adaptation and coevolution and give rise to essential services such as …

Background & Aims: The relationship between rodents and seeds represents an integral
component of the structure and functional maintenance of forest ecosystems. Previous …

Animal‐mediated seed dispersal is an important ecological process in which a strong
mutualism between animals and plants can arise. However, few studies have examined how …

Past studies have revealed the benefits of rodent participation in the colonization process of
oak species. Certain rodent species (Apodemus sylvaticus and Mus spretus) partially …

Food-hoarding granivores act as both predators and dispersers of plant seeds, resulting in
facultative species interactions along a mutualism–antagonism continuum. The position …

While cheating can cause the degradation or collapse of mutualisms, mutualisms may
theoretically stabilize or strengthen if the cheating is mutual. Here, we present an …

Many species interactions occur along a continuum from mutualistic to antagonistic. Among
these interactions, the effects of seed‐dispersing granivores (synzoochory) are especially …

A stochastic two-species mutualism model that incorporates nonlinear perturbations and
distributed delays is proposed and analyzed in this paper, in where saturation effects and …

One of the biggest issues in plant ecology is determining the interaction outcome between
seeds and scatter-hoarding rodents because the latter has a dual role as dispersers and …

Pollination and seed dispersal mutualisms are critical for biodiversity and ecosystem
services yet face mounting threats from anthropogenic perturbations that cause their …