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Table 2 The percentage (mean ± standard error) of the total seeds remaining put out: in closed-canopy forest/in tree-fall gaps in 1° cloud forest, Maquipucuna Reserve

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

Cecropia sp.

88 ± 1/70 ± 2

8 ± 2/19 ± 1

4 ± 1/6 ± 1

0 ± 1/5 ± 2

Ardisia websteri

85 ± 1/81 ± 1

4 ± 1/10 ± 1

11 ± 2/9 ± 1

0 ± 1/0 ± 1

Prestoea acuminata

80 ± 3/88 ± 2

3 ± 2/5 ± 2

10 ± 2/6 ± 2

7 ± 2/0 ± 1

Ficus sp.

82 ± 2/92 ± 1

5 ± 1/3 ± 3

8 ± 1/4 ± 3

5 ± 1/1 ± 1

Otoba gordoniifolia

70 ± 1/68 ± 1

4 ± 2/10 ± 3

20 ± 1/10 ± 2

6 ± 2/12 ± 1

Mean % (rounded)

81/80

5/9

11/7