Highly mobile seed predators contribute to interisland seed dispersal within an oceanic archipelago
Haruko Ando, Yuka Mori, Miho Nishihiro, Kanon Mizukoshi, Masaki Akaike, Wataru Kitamura & Nozomu J. Sato
Long-distance dispersal (LDD) is an essential event for species colonization and expansion in oceanic island ecosystems. Endozoochory by birds is an important factor promoting the LDD of plant seeds, but its contribution to interisland seed dispersal is still unclear. Here, we show possible seed dispersal by a seed predator pigeon, the Japanese wood pigeon Columba janthina, among oceanic islands in the Izu archipelago, Japan. Although some previous studies showed that most seeds swallowed by this...
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