Seed dispersal
Pollen and seed dispersal of Brazil nut trees in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon
... pollen dispersal (Ward et ...gene dispersal after seedling establishment (Aldrich et ...of seed-dispersal distances in tropical trees are based on seed- or fruit-removal experiments ...
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DNA fingerprinting validates seed dispersal curves from observational studies in the neotropical legume parkia.
... The genus Parkia belongs to the family Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae, and has a pan-tropical distribution [27,28]. In the Neotropics, it is represented by 19 or more species [27,29] that mostly grow as medium to tall ...
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Does animal-mediated seed dispersal facilitate the formation of Pinus armandii-Quercus aliena var. acuteserrata forests?
... successional Quercus species [9,19]. However, the mechanism that underlies the invasion is not well understood. In this framework, mixed forests are usually considered to be a successional stage of initial ...
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Uncoupling the effects of seed predation and seed dispersal by granivorous ants on plant population dynamics.
... seeds), seed predation only affects the individual density of this species, and there is no predation effect on its spatial occupation and ...Moreover, seed dispersal mediated by ants is not ...
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Evidence for herbaceous seed dispersal by small-bodied fishes in a Pantanal seasonal wetland
... the seed dispersal process by analyzing the number of seedlings produced by the total mass of substrate at each sampling ...the seed dispersal process we compared the number of seedlings ...
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Evolution of seed dispersal in the Cerrado biome: ecological and phylogenetic considerations
... this dispersal strategy in this environment, where ground animals move primarily horizontally (Gottsberger & Silberbauer-Gottsberger ...to seed dispersal and also this pulp could contain ...
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Functional redundancy and complementarities of seed dispersal by the last neotropical megafrugivores.
... From April 2008 to July 2009, we searched for tapir feces by walking along a grid of existing trails and also following tapirs tracks distributed throughout the study area, totaling 198 km walked, with an average of 14 ...
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Solanaceae composition, pollination and seed dispersal syndromes in Mexican Mountain Cloud Forest
... of seed dispersal by animals (zoochory) (Tiffney ...pollination, seed dispersal doubles genetic exchange (Hamrich & Nason ...by seed dispersal (Sinha & Davidar ...but ...
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Potential seed dispersal by Didelphis albiventris (Marsupialia, Didelphidae) in highly disturbed environment
... Seed dispersal is the result of mutualistic interaction between plants and animals that eat fleshy and nutritive fruits, which contain from one to several seeds (Van der Pijl ...
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Reproductive phenology, pollination and seed dispersal syndromes on sandstone outcrop vegetation in the “Chapada Diamantina”, northeastern Brazil: population and community analyses
... and seed dispersal syndromes on sandstone outcrop vegetation in the “Chapada Diamantina”, northeastern Brazil: population and community ...and seed dispersal syndromes indicated that animals ...
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Internal seed dispersal by parrots: an overview of a neglected mutualism
... as seed dispersers of their food plants. Internal dispersal was investigated by searching for seeds in faeces opportunistically collected at communal roosts, foraging sites and nests of eleven parrot ...
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Life-forms, pollination and seed dispersal syndromes in plant communities on ironstone outcrops, SE Brazil
... (Life-forms, pollination and seed dispersal syndromes in plant communities on ironstone outcrops, SE Brazil). Rock outcrops play an important role in enhancing plant diversity in montane ecosystems. ...
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The Effect of Height, Wing Length, and Wing Symmetry on Tabebuia rosea Seed Dispersal
... Seed dispersal is the movement of seeds away from the parental ...plant. Dispersal is important because seeds that travel a greater distance have the possibility of reaching hospitable areas not ...
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Are weeds hitchhiking a ride on your car? A systematic review of seed dispersal on cars.
... weed seed found on cars it is important to minimise the risk of this type of seed ...of seed dispersal include mowing road verges before plants are seeding to prevent the seed of weeds ...
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Partitioning of seed dispersal services between birds and bats in a fragment of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
... In order to describe the structure of the seed dispersal network, we built a binary (presence/absence) adjacency matrix with animals (bats and birds) as i rows and plants as j columns. Cells were filled ...
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Seed dispersal of Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae) by terretrial frugivores in Laguna Azul, Beni, Bolivia
... main seed dispersers of ...on dispersal behavior of ...and seed size and advance the hypothesis that the high abundance of the resource makes it unnecessary to scatterhoard seeds ...
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Assessing intraspecific variation in effective dispersal along an altitudinal gradient: a test in two Mediterranean high-mountain plants.
... effective seed dispersal patterns in ...effective seed dispersal ...effective dispersal more accurately, and thus increase the amount of explained variance in within-population recruit- ...
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Stelamaris de Oliveira Paula
... noni seed that can make up for the small size of the reserve tissue since they have a greater energy-to-volume ...favors seed dispersal since smaller seeds are easily dispersed due to its lower ...
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Interactions between frugivorous birds and plants in savanna and forest formations of the Cerrado
... that seed dispersal is an important ecological process that acts in the maintenance of diversity and that frugivory is the first step in studying this event (Cordeiro & Howe 2001), our objectives were ...
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Elizabeth Natasha Vanderhoff Brian Grafton2
... the seed dispersal process and includes visitation rates, fruit choice, handling and removal (Wang & Smith ...of seed dispersal is dependent on internal fruit processing within the animal ...
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