funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171533 and 31971444);the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(2208085J28).
Scatter-hoarding rodents play important roles in plant regeneration and species coexistence in many forest ecosys-tems.Cache pilferage,the behavior of rodents seeking or relocating seeds cached by other individuals,is...
The work was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1904105);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Nos.2019T120144 and 2018M630213);the Excellent Youth Foundation of Henan(212300410050);the National Science and Technology Basic Survey Program of China(2019FY101603).Shanshan Wei,Xiaogeng Bai,Qiang Guo,Weilong Zhang,Guangyuan Wu,Weilin Liang,and Ningge Guo provided important help in the field.
The distributions of small rodents in mountainous environments across different elevations can provide important information regarding the effects of climate change on the dispersal of plant species.However,few studie...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971441,31770565)。
Double mutualism,that is,pollination and seed dispersal of the same plant species mediated by the same animal partners,is important but remains elusive in nature.Recently,rodent species were found as key pollinators(i...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971444 and 32171533).
Scatter-hoarding rodents play a crucial role in seed survival and seed dispersal.As one of the most important seed traits,seed size and its effect on rodent–seed interaction attract lots of attention.Current studies ...
Scatter-hoarding rodents store seeds throughout their home ranges in superficially buried caches which,unlike seeds larder-hoarded in burrows,are difficult to defend.Cached seeds are often pilfered by other scatter-ho...
This research was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0500105,2017YFC0503802);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971441,31770565);The State Key Laboratory of IntegratedManagement of Pest Insects and Rodents(ChineseIPM1718).
Beyond direct species interactions,seed dispersal is potentially affected by indirect seed–seed interactions among co-occurring nut-bearing trees which are mediated by scatter-hoarding animals as shared seed disperse...
provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070447,31760156);the Young Talents Invitation Program of Shandong Provincial Colleges and Universities(20190601)。
Although it has been suggested that olfaction is closely interconnected with hippocampal systems,whether olfaction regulates spatial memory strategy remains never known.Furthermore,no study has examined how olfaction ...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770570,31971444,31470494);the CAS"Light of West China"Program.
Sced dispersal and predation by satterhoarding rodents play an im-portant role in seedling regeneration,community structure and com-position,and species coexistence(Vander Wall 2010;Zhang et al.2016).Rodents generally...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31760156);the Young Talents Invitation Program of Shandong Provincial Colleges and Universities.
Although food availability and the abundance of seed predators have been postulated to affect seed dispersal,it is not clear how seed-eating animals modify their scatter-hoarding strategies in response to different le...
The mechanism underlying detection of seed dormancy by scatter-hoarding rodents is unclear,although previous work suggests that the pericarp plays an important role in signaling dormancy status.Eastern gray squirrels(...