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Table 3 The percentage (mean ± standard error) of the total seeds remaining put out: in fields recovering from banana cultivation/in fields recovering from sugarcane cultivation/in fields recovering after use as seeded pasture in 2° 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 monostachya

66 ± 1/67 ± 2/50 ± 1

24 ± 2/25 ± 1/29 ± 3

10 ± 2/6 ± 1/10 ± 1

0 ± 1/2 ± 1/11 ± 1

Piper aduncum

50 ± 1/50 ± 2/49 ± 2

30 ± 1/30 ± 1/29 ± 2

11 ± 3/10 ± 1/12 ± 1

9 ± 1/10 ± 2/0 ± 1

Cestrum megalophyllum

74 ± 2/69 ± 1/71 ± 2

13 ± 1/11 ± 2/10 ± 1

10 ± 2/9 ± 2/9 ± 1

3 ± 1/11 ± 3/9 ± 1

Solanum ovalifolium

77 ± 2/75 ± 1/71 ± 3

9 ± 1/9 ± 1/8 ± 3

14 ± 1/14 ± 2/13 ± 1

0 ± 1/2 ± 2/7 ± 2

Means % (rounded)

67/65/60

19/19/19

11/10/11