Three plant species dispersed by flying foxes had multi-seeded diaspores that could be efficiently dispersed by seed predators.
Similar to the influence of co-flowering species on plant pollinator interactions, rates of pre-dispersal seed predation also can be influenced by community context through their attraction to other species that share seed predators (Recart et al. 2013).
Seeds concentrated beneath a parent plant are easy for seed predators to locate.
Some seed predators are also highly specialized to attack the seeds of only one or a few plant species.
Another capacity important to seed survival, particularly in the diverse tropical rainforest community, involves the evasion of seed predators.
Mast seeding is an effective defense because the seed predators become satiated before all the seeds have been consumed.
For example, seed predators commonly scour the ground for each year's seed crop, eating most of the seeds produced by many different species each year.
Seed bite marks were used to identify seed predators.
In addition, the eventual size of the seed crop depends on the fluctuations of seed predators and seed diseases.
Rodents are important pollinators and seed predators of fynbos Proteaceae, but their role as florivores has received little attention.
Four groups of seeds were offered to seed predators at high (60) and low (10) densities in each site.
