Effects of Small Rodent and Large Mammal Exclusion on Seedling Recruitment in Costa Rica 1
dc.contributor.author | DeMattia, Elizabeth A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Rathcke, Beverly J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Curran, Lisa M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Aguilar, Reinaldo | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Vargas, Orlando | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-01T20:56:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-01T20:56:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | DeMattia, Elizabeth A.; Rathcke, Beverly J.; Curran, Lisa M.; Aguilar, Reinaldo; Vargas, Orlando (2006). "Effects of Small Rodent and Large Mammal Exclusion on Seedling Recruitment in Costa Rica 1 ." Biotropica 38(2): 196-202. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74037> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0006-3606 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-7429 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74037 | |
dc.description.abstract | We examined whether the experimental exclusion of large mammalian and small rodent seed predators had differing effects on seedling recruitment under natural seed rain conditions. In both primary and late-successional secondary forested areas, exclosure experiments using natural seed densities were designed to assess seedling recruitment. To assess the differences in seedling recruitment, we monitored three exclosure treatments (1.2 m radius/1.5 m height) in two forest types (primary vs. late-successional secondary forest): (1) fenced exclosures that excluded large mammals; (2) fenced exclosures that excluded both large and small mammals; and (3) open controls. Within each exclosure treatment, we marked and identified all seedlings at the beginning of the experiment (February 2001), followed the marked seedlings' fate for a year, and then marked and identified all new seedlings after a year. Two preliminary findings were generated from these data: for some tree species, small rodents and large mammals have differential effects on seedling recruitment, and the effect of excluding mammals did not differ with habitat type (primary vs. late-successional secondary forest). These preliminary results highlight the need to examine further how the effects of small rodent and large mammal exclusion may affect species-specific seed predation and seedling recruitment in a variety of habitat/land use types ( e.g. , primary forest, late-successional forest, and early-successional forest). | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Inc | en_US |
dc.rights | 2005 The Author(s) Journal compilation © 2005 by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Corcovado National Park | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Exclosures | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Microsite Variation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Perebea Hispidula | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Pouteria Sp. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Tropical Forest | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Trophis Racemosa | en_US |
dc.title | Effects of Small Rodent and Large Mammal Exclusion on Seedling Recruitment in Costa Rica 1 | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Organization for Tropical Studies, La Selva Biological Station, Apartado 676-2050, San Pedro, Costa Rica | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74037/1/j.1744-7429.2006.00117.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00117.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Biotropica | en_US |
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