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Donald R. Drake

Researcher at University of Hawaii

Publications -  66
Citations -  3134

Donald R. Drake is an academic researcher from University of Hawaii. The author has contributed to research in topics: Seed dispersal & Introduced species. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 64 publications receiving 2725 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald R. Drake include University of Hawaii at Manoa & Georgia Southern University.

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Flying foxes cease to function as seed dispersers long before they become rare

TL;DR: It is found the relationship between ecological function (seed dispersal) and flying fox abundance was nonlinear and consistent with the hypothesis that flying foxes may cease to be effective seed dispersers long before becoming rare.
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Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

J. W. Ferry Slik, +193 more
TL;DR: A global tropical forest classification that is explicitly based on community evolutionary similarity is provided, resulting in identification of five major tropical forest regions and their relationships: (i) Indo-Pacific, (ii) Subtropical, (iii) African, (iv) American, and (v) Dry forests.
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Potential disruptions to seed dispersal mutualisms in Tonga, Western Polynesia

TL;DR: There is now no avian disperser in Tonga for plant species whose fruits are too large to be swallowed by Tonga’s largestextant frugivorous bird (D. pacifica) yet display fruit characteristics suggesting bird was likely to have been their predominant vertebrate dispersal in pre-human times.
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Population Development of Rain Forest Trees on a Chronosequence of Hawaiian Lava Flows

Donald R. Drake, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1993 - 
TL;DR: A comparison between plant populations on the chronosequence and on one other flow, aged ~ 1400 yr but containing some volcanic ash, indicated that ash may alter some aspects of forest development.
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Are introduced rats (Rattus rattus) both seed predators and dispersers in Hawaii

TL;DR: The combined field and laboratory findings indicate that many interactions between black rats and seeds of native and non-native plants may result in dispersal, likely to be affecting plant communities through both seed predation and dispersal.