Benefits of small-sized caches for scatter-hoarding rodents: Influence of cache size, depth, and soil moisture

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Dipodomys 100%
• Hoarding 81%
• Soil 58%
• Rodentia 44%
• Seeds 41%
• Sand 37%
• Seed Dispersal 29%
• Food 18%
• Aptitude 9%
• Animals 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• caching 78%
• rodent 56%
• soil moisture 43%
• substrate 26%
• seed 19%
• seed propagation 14%
• food 10%
• seed dispersal 9%
• sand 9%
• detection 8%
• moisture content 6%
• perturbation 6%
• moisture 5%
• animal 5%
• rainfall 4%
• experiment 3%

Agriculture & Biology

• Dipodomys 47%
• soil water 45%
• rodents 45%
• Dipodomys ordii 19%
• sand 18%
• seeds 16%
• granivores 15%
• plant propagation 15%
• wet environmental conditions 14%
• food storage 13%
• seed dispersal 11%
• rain 8%
• water content 7%
• animals 4%