Data from: Special delivery: scavengers direct seed dispersal towards ungulate carcasses ...
Cadaver decomposition-islands around animal carcasses can facilitate establishment of various plant life. Facultative scavengers have great potential for endozoochory, and often aggregate around carcasses. Hence, they may disperse plant seeds that they ingest across the landscape towards cadaver dec...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.h3c55cc 2024-02-04T09:59:57+01:00 Data from: Special delivery: scavengers direct seed dispersal towards ungulate carcasses ... Steyaert, Sam M.J.G. Frank, Shane C. Puliti, Stefano Badia, Rudi Arnberg, Mie P. Beardsley, Jack Økelsrud, Asle Blaalid, Rakel 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h3c55cc https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.h3c55cc en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0388. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 scavengers Rangifer tarandus Empetrum nigrum carrion ecology Dataset dataset 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h3c55cc10.1098/rsbl.2018.0388. 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z Cadaver decomposition-islands around animal carcasses can facilitate establishment of various plant life. Facultative scavengers have great potential for endozoochory, and often aggregate around carcasses. Hence, they may disperse plant seeds that they ingest across the landscape towards cadaver decomposition-islands. Here, we demonstrate this novel mechanism along a gradient of wild tundra reindeer carcasses. First, we show that the spatial distribution of scavenger feces (birds and foxes) was concentrated around carcasses. Second, feces of the predominant scavengers (corvids) commonly contained viable seeds of crowberry, a keystone species of the alpine tundra with predominantly vegetative reproduction. We suggest that cadaver decomposition-islands function as endpoints for directed endozoochory by scavengers. Such a mechanism could be especially beneficial for species that rely on small scale disturbances in soil and vegetation, such as several Nordic berry-producing species with cryptic generative ... : ESM_DRYAD_special_delivery_dataThe text file contains count data of bird (A) and mammal (M) feces, and presence or absence (Rp) of rodent fecal pellet groups at 75 1*1m survey plots distributed over a reindeer mass die-off (N = 323) site in Hardangervidda, Norway. 'Car_den' refers to carcass density (per m2), followed by a numeric indicating the search radius of the density estimator. 'Carc_dist' refers to the distance of each survey plot to the nearest carcass. POINT_X and POINT_Y are the encrypted coordinates of the survey plots. ... Dataset Crowberry Empetrum nigrum Rangifer tarandus Tundra DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Norway |
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scavengers Rangifer tarandus Empetrum nigrum carrion ecology Steyaert, Sam M.J.G. Frank, Shane C. Puliti, Stefano Badia, Rudi Arnberg, Mie P. Beardsley, Jack Økelsrud, Asle Blaalid, Rakel Data from: Special delivery: scavengers direct seed dispersal towards ungulate carcasses ... |
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Cadaver decomposition-islands around animal carcasses can facilitate establishment of various plant life. Facultative scavengers have great potential for endozoochory, and often aggregate around carcasses. Hence, they may disperse plant seeds that they ingest across the landscape towards cadaver decomposition-islands. Here, we demonstrate this novel mechanism along a gradient of wild tundra reindeer carcasses. First, we show that the spatial distribution of scavenger feces (birds and foxes) was concentrated around carcasses. Second, feces of the predominant scavengers (corvids) commonly contained viable seeds of crowberry, a keystone species of the alpine tundra with predominantly vegetative reproduction. We suggest that cadaver decomposition-islands function as endpoints for directed endozoochory by scavengers. Such a mechanism could be especially beneficial for species that rely on small scale disturbances in soil and vegetation, such as several Nordic berry-producing species with cryptic generative ... : ESM_DRYAD_special_delivery_dataThe text file contains count data of bird (A) and mammal (M) feces, and presence or absence (Rp) of rodent fecal pellet groups at 75 1*1m survey plots distributed over a reindeer mass die-off (N = 323) site in Hardangervidda, Norway. 'Car_den' refers to carcass density (per m2), followed by a numeric indicating the search radius of the density estimator. 'Carc_dist' refers to the distance of each survey plot to the nearest carcass. POINT_X and POINT_Y are the encrypted coordinates of the survey plots. ... |
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Steyaert, Sam M.J.G. Frank, Shane C. Puliti, Stefano Badia, Rudi Arnberg, Mie P. Beardsley, Jack Økelsrud, Asle Blaalid, Rakel |
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Crowberry Empetrum nigrum Rangifer tarandus Tundra |
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Crowberry Empetrum nigrum Rangifer tarandus Tundra |
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