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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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Does multiple seed loading in Blue Jays result in selective dispersal of smaller acorns
Andrew W. Bartlow,Michael Kachmar,Nathanael I. Lichti,Robert K. Swihart,Jeffrey A. Stratford,Michael A. Steele +5 more
TL;DR: It is predicted that jays foraging on smaller acorns will load more seeds per trip and disperse seeds to greater distances than when single acorns are carried in the bill, and that in some circumstances, multiple seed loading by Blue Jays may favor dispersal in some plant species.
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Squirrel-Seed Interactions: The Evolutionary Strategies and Impact of Squirrels as Both Seed Predators and Seed Dispersers
Michael A. Steele,Xianfeng Yi +1 more
TL;DR: The evidence for how forest composition influences interactions between squirrels and seed trees and the role of squirrels as either seed predators or seed dispersers is reviewed and how the squirrel’s role shifts to one of seed disperser in hardwood forests is shown.
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Hoarding without reward: Rodent responses to repeated episodes of complete cache loss
TL;DR: Variation in responses observed across species and gender suggest some degree of behavioural plasticity to compensate for such extreme losses, but a general inability to abandon hoarding or shift to an alternative strategy.
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The use of spatial memory for cache management by a scatter-hoarding rodent
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Siberian chipmunks will first bury caches and then avoid their own caches in subsequent foraging, pilfering, and caching activity, suggesting that they use spatial memory to conserve their own cache.
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Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
Tong Qiu,Robert A. Andrus,Marie-Claire Aravena,Davide Ascoli,Yves Bergeron,Roberta Berretti,Daniel Berveiller,Michał Bogdziewicz,Thomas Boivin,Raúl Bonal,Don C. Bragg,Thomas Caignard,Rafael Calama,J. Julio Camarero,Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang,Natalie L. Cleavitt,Benoît Courbaud,François Courbet,Thomas Curt,Adrian J. Das,Evangelia N. Daskalakou,Hendrik Davi,Nicolas Delpierre,Sylvain Delzon,Michael Dietze,Sergio Donoso Calderon,Laurent Dormont,Josep Mª Espelta,Timothy J. Fahey,William Farfan-Rios,Catherine A. Gehring,Gregory S. Gilbert,Georg Gratzer,Cathryn H. Greenberg,Qinfeng Guo,Andrew Hacket-Pain,Arndt Hampe,Qingmin Han,Janneke HilleRisLambers,Kazuhiko Hoshizaki,Inés Ibáñez,Jill F. Johnstone,Valentin Journé,Daisuke Kabeya,Christopher L. Kilner,Thomas Kitzberger,Johannes M. H. Knops,Richard K. Kobe,Georges Kunstler,Jonathan G.A. Lageard,Jalene M. LaMontagne,Mateusz Ledwoń,François Lefèvre,Theodor D. Leininger,Jean-Marc Limousin,James A. Lutz,Diana Macias,Eliot J. B. McIntire,Christopher M. Moore,Emily V. Moran,Renzo Motta,Jonathan Myers,Thomas A. Nagel,Kyotaro Noguchi,Jean-Marc Ourcival,Robert C Parmenter,Ian S. Pearse,Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos,Lukasz Piechnik,John R. Poulsen,Renata Poulton-Kamakura,Miranda D. Redmond,Chantal Reid,Kyle C. Rodman,Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez,Javier Sanguinetti,C. Lane Scher,William H. Schlesinger,Harald Schmidt Van Marle,Barbara Seget,Shubhi Sharma,Miles R. Silman,Michael A. Steele,Nathan L. Stephenson,Jacob N. Straub,I-Fang Sun,Samantha Sutton,Jennifer J. Swenson,Margaret Swift,Peter Thomas,María Uriarte,Giorgio Vacchiano,Thomas T. Veblen,Amy V. Whipple,Thomas G. Whitham,Andreas P. Wion,Boyd R. Wright,S. Joseph Wright,Kai Zhu,Jess K. Zimmerman,R.I. Zlotin,Magdalena Żywiec,James S. Clark +102 more
TL;DR: In this article , a synthesis of fecundity data from 714 species worldwide allowed them to examine hypotheses that are central to quantifying reproduction, a foundation for assessing fitness in forest trees.