Interactions between seed traits and digestive processes determine the germinability of bird-dispersed seeds

• Erik Kleyheeg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erik Kleyheeg, Mascha Claessens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: erikkleyheeg@gmail.com

  Current address: Department of Migration and Immuno-Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell am Bodensee, Germany.

  Affiliation Ecology & Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8026-3887

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• Mascha Claessens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erik Kleyheeg, Mascha Claessens

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology & Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Merel B. Soons

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ecology & Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

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