Southeast Asia – Field Talk /fieldtalk audio interviews take you into the field with ecologists Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 The Sacrificial Sibling Hypothesis /fieldtalk/field-talk-the-sacrificial-sibling-hypothesis/ /fieldtalk/field-talk-the-sacrificial-sibling-hypothesis/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:00:13 +0000 /fieldtalk/?p=61 … Read more ›]]> The success of an animal or plant is determined by how many offspring it Jaboury Ghazoul of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerlandproduces. But in some cases, not all offspring are created equal. In the February edition of Field Talk, Jaboury Ghazoul of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, describes how some species of trees invest resources in seeds that cannot produce viable offspring. His paper in the February issue of Ecology shows that when seed predators are abundant, investment in decoy seeds – or “sacrificial siblings” – can increase a plant’s chances of producing successful progeny.

Jaboury Ghazoul and Akiko Satake

Ecology 2009 90:2, 369-377

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