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Sabrina E. Russo, Stephen Portnoy, and Carol K. Augspurger. 2006. Incorporating animal behavior into seed dispersal models: implications for seed shadows. Ecology 87:3160–3174.

Appendix A. Crop size and seed dispersal for 19 source trees of Virola calophylla that produced fruit in 2001 in the study plot.

Source tree

Diameter (cm)

Crop size (no. seeds)

Percentage of seeds dispersed

1E

36

60

29.4

2E

32

50

32.2

3

34

4710

43.8

4

26

201

48.9

5E

33

2000

50.7

6E

35

382

54.3

7

35

2396

58.5

8

25

284

63.3

9

30

125

63.6

10E

28

100

66.4

11

44

11963

66.5

12

29

352

68.4

13

33

2179

70.5

14E

39

26

71.3

15E

32

194

73.3

16

23

2144

73.6

17

39

1832

76.5

18

38

78

77.8

19

25

2278

92.5

   Notes: The superscript “E” indicates trees for which crop sizes were visually estimated and the percent of crop dispersed was assigned by randomly selecting it from the distribution of percent seed dispersal, as described in the text. Estimates for all other trees were from fruit traps underneath their crowns. Total seed production within the study plot was 810 seeds/ha.



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