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Introduction Although Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus) has been found to ubiquitously remove the pericarps and prefer to scatter hoard sound acorns of white oaks over infested ones to maximize ret
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Agriculture,Henan University of Science and Technology,Luoyang,Henan 471003,China
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第四届国际种子生态学大会(The 4th International Society for Seed Science
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Introduction Although Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus) has been found to ubiquitously remove the pericarps and prefer to scatter hoard sound acorns of white oaks over infested ones to maximize returns from caches (Yi et al 2012), we have no knowledge whether pericarp-removal represents universal behavior of chipmunks and then benefits seedling establishment of Quercus acorns.
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