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Michael A. Steele
Researcher at Wilkes University
Publications - 82
Citations - 3332
Michael A. Steele is an academic researcher from Wilkes University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Seed dispersal & Acorn. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 74 publications receiving 2863 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael A. Steele include University of Pennsylvania.
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Squirrels of the World
TL;DR: "Squirrels of the World", written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species of squirrels worldwide.
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Caching decisions by grey squirrels: a test of the handling time and perishability hypotheses
TL;DR: It is suggested that the perishability of seeds exerts a greater influence than handling time on the grey squirrel's decision to cache acorns, and predicts the predictions for caching behaviour that follow from these two hypotheses.
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Climate change induced hybridization in flying squirrels
Colin J. Garroway,Jeff Bowman,Tara J. Cascaden,Gillian L. Holloway,Carolyn G. Mahan,Jay R. Malcolm,Michael A. Steele,Gregory G. Turner,Paul J. Wilson +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the occurrence of hybridization between sympatric G. sabrinus and G. volans and found evidence of backcrossing but not of extensive introgession consistent with the hypothesis of recent rather than historic hybridization.
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Tannins and partial consumption of acorns: implications for dispersal of oaks by seed predators.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the higher tannin levels may render the apical portion of the seeds less palatable, and thereby increase the probability of embryo survival after attack by seed consumers.
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Determinants of seed removal distance by scatter-hoarding rodents in deciduous forests
TL;DR: The results suggest that, when food is superabundant, optimal cache distances are more strongly determined by minimizing energy cost of caching than by minimizing pilfering rates and that cache loss rates may be more strongly density-dependent in times of low seed abundance.