ABSTRACT A mechanistic understanding of seed movement and survival is important both
for the development of theoretical models of plant population dynamics, spatial spread, and …

In seasonally dry environments such as the Zagros woodlands (Iran), severe drought stress
and lack of appropriate management practices can cause failure of oak afforestation or …

Abstract Background and Aims The Janzen–Connell model predicts that common species
suffer high seed predation from specialized natural enemies as a function of distance from …

Oak forests can naturally regenerate from seed or from sprouts. Both strategies result in the
establishment of a tree layer, but they involve a crucial difference: ie regeneration from …

Escaping seed predation is a classic “economy of scale” hypotheses (predator satiation
hypothesis, Psh) to explain the selection for the synchronous production of massive and nil …

Seed predation is an important ecological and evolutionary force that directly affects the
distribution of plant species. Copaifera langsdorffii is a tropical tree species with supra …

Mast seeding is characteristic of many long-lived tree species and widely proposed as a
mechanism to reduce seed predation. However, whether the efficiency of this reproductive …

The predator satiation hypothesis poses that synchronous and variable seed production
during masting events increases seed escape through seed predator satiation. The success …

Identification of the mechanisms enabling stable coexistence of species with similar
resource requirements is a central challenge in ecology. Such coexistence can be facilitated …

Tree species often exhibit considerable variability among individuals in seed crop size and
averaged seed mass within the same year. However, very little is known about the …