Internal and External Dispersal of Plants by Animals: An Aquatic Perspective on Alien Interference [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Many alien plants use animal vectors for dispersal of their diaspores (zoochory). If alien plants interact with native disperser animals, this can interfere with animal-mediated dispersal of native diaspores.
Casper H. A. van Leeuwen
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First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Correlations between transequatorial migratory bird routes and bipolar biogeographic disjunctions in bryophytes suggest that disjunctions between northern and southern high latitude regions may result from bird-mediated dispersal; supporting evidence is,
Lily R. Lewis +9 more
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Evidence of avian-mediated long distance dispersal in American tardigrades [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Terrestrial tardigrades, commonly known as “water bears”, are part of a phylum of microscopic, aquatic invertebrates famous for cryptobiosis and space travel, but little is known about their modes of dispersal on Earth.
Matthew J. Mogle +3 more
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Migratory Songbirds as Potential Ectozoochorous Protist Dispersal Vectors [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionProtist biogeography, speciation, and systematics continue to generate debate and inquiry because protist distributions and dispersal remain poorly resolved.
Silas E. Fischer +4 more
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Dispersal of bacteria and stimulation of permafrost decomposition by Collembola [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2022 Contrary to most soils, permafrost soils have the atypical feature of being almost entirely deprived of soil fauna. Abiotic constraints on the fate of permafrost carbon after thawing are increasingly understood, but biotic constraints remain scarcely ...
S. Monteux +5 more
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Evolution of Seed Dispersal Modes in the Orchidaceae: Has the Vanilla Mystery Been Solved?
Horticulturae, 2023 Orchid seeds are predominantly wind-dispersed, often developed within dry, dehiscent fruits that typically release millions of dust-like seeds into the air.
Adam P. Karremans +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The dispersal of many large-seeded plants is thought to have been handicapped by the extinction of megafauna in the late Pleistocene, and due to the ongoing defaunation of the largest of the extant dispersers.
Guillermo Blanco +3 more
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Driver's Seat: Understanding Divergent Zoochorous Dispersal of Propagules
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The functional role, relative importance, and the spatial and temporal parameters of different vector species, which underpin the passive dispersal (zoochory) of organisms (or their propagules), are frequently poorly understood. Accordingly, a conceptual
Neil E. Coughlan +9 more
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Zoochorous dispersal of freshwater bivalves: an overlooked vector in biological invasions?
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2017 Vectors that underpin the natural dispersal of invasive alien species are frequently unknown. In particular, the passive dispersal (zoochory) of one organism (or propagule) by another, usually more mobile animal, remains poorly understood.
Coughlan Neil E. +4 more
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Multiple lines and levels of evidence for avian zoochory promoting fish colonization of artificial lakes. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2023 Garcia F +4 more
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