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A field experiment was designed to examine the effect of infructescence size on fruit removal rates by bird dispersers, using the Mediterranean shrub Viburnum tinus. The proportion of fruit removed during a single season was consistently high, but did not differ over a range of manipulated infructescence sizes (2, 5, 10 and 20 fruit infructescence −1 ). Logistic regression models revealed significant effects of both individual plants and groups of infructescences within plants on fruit removal rates |
