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Table 1 The percentage (mean ± standard error) of the total seeds remaining put out: in closed-canopy forest/in tree-fall gaps in 1° cloud forest, Guandera biological station

From: Gradient (elevation) vs. disturbance (agriculture) effects on primary Cloud forest in Ecuador: seed predation, seed pathogens, germination

Species

% lost to predators

% lost to pathogens

% germinated

% other

Solanum stenophyllum

15 ± 2/17 ± 1

60 ± 1/63 ± 1

20 ± 3/10 ± 2

5 ± 2/10 ± 2

Palicourea amethystina

11 ± 2/13 ± 2

44 ± 3/47 ± 1

35 ± 2/27 ± 2

10 ± 2/13 ± 1

Clusia flaviflora

10 ± 2/9 ± 1

71 ± 2/75 ± 1

15 ± 1/12 ± 1

4 ± 2/4 ± 2

Mean % (rounded)

12/13

58/62

23/16