Ecological Archives A022-092-A1

Susan Culliney, Liba Pejchar, Richard Switzer, and Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez. 2012. Seed dispersal by a corvid that persists only in captivity: the potential role of the ‘Alal (Corvus hawaiiensis) in shaping Hawai'i's plant communities. Ecological Applications 22:1718–1732. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1613.1

Appendix A. Color version of Fig. 3 (graph of bird species and the corresponding fruits and seed sizes that each bird is known to disperse).

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Fig. A1 (Fig. 3 in main manuscript).  Native fruits and seeds consumed (in order of seed size) by ʻAlalā (Corvus hawaiiensis; native, extinct in the wild), ʻŌmaʻo (Myadestes obscurus; native, extirpated from ʻAlalā historic range), Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea; exotic introduced, common), and Japanese White-eye (Zosterops japonicus; exotic introduced, common) (data sources: Tomich 1971, Sakai et al. 1986, Sakai and Carpenter 1990, Male et al. 1998, Wakelee and Fancy 1999, van Riper 2000, Wagner et al. 2000, Banko et al. 2002, Foster and Robinson 2007; L. Pejchar, unpublished data; S. Culliney, unpublished data). Only the 14 fruits and seeds used in the flock-wide study and the six fruits (with star symbol) used in the trials involving a subset of ʻAlalā are shown. The top five species (placed above the horizontal line) are speculated to have been part of the ʻAlalā diet, based on possible prehistoric range overlap (J. Price, T. Pratt, L. Pratt, personal communication ).


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