Effect of plant species, fruit density and habitat on post-dispersal fruit and seed removal by spiny pocket mice (Liomys pictus, Heteromyidae) in a tropical dry forest in Mexico

Agriculture & Biology

• Heteromyidae 100%
• tropical dry forests 76%
• Mexico 47%
• Caesalpinia coriaria 37%
• fruits 34%
• mice 33%
• habitats 33%
• Spondias purpurea 33%
• Delonix regia 31%
• seeds 30%
• deciduous forests 22%
• sunflower seed 16%
• tropical forests 13%
• Helianthus annuus 12%
• Lonchocarpus 10%
• seed quality 7%
• food choices 6%
• fruit quality 6%
• species recruitment 5%
• rodents 5%
• diet 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• dry forest 71%
• fruit 58%
• tropical forest 58%
• plant species 51%
• seed 50%
• habitat 36%
• removal 30%
• deciduous forest 15%
• effect 13%
• food 6%
• food quality 6%
• habitat quality 5%
• rodent 5%
• seedling 4%
• dwelling 4%
• diet 4%