The last of my Ph.D. papers has just been published in the journal Current Zoology. We show that island scrub-jays have strong spatial (habitat) preferences when caching acorns. Because they cache a majority of acorns in areas of oak recruitment - identified by seedling counts - we argue that the jays have contributed to the rapid passive restoration of Santa Cruz Island. Read the paper here [link]
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