Briggs, Jennifer S.; Wall, Stephen B. Vander - In: Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 4, pp. 666-672
buried seeds, the type of substrate used by seed-caching rodents may alter the relative probabilities of cache pilferage and … on the forest floor. In a laboratory experiment, we compared the foraging success, caching frequency, and cache recovery … caching in ash may allow animals to avoid pilferage of stored food. As chipmunks are important dispersers of seeds, changes in …