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Effects of endozoochory and diploendozoochory by captive wild mammals on Juniperus deppeana seeds [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Carnivorous mammals disperse seeds through endozoochory and diploendozoochory. The former consists of ingestion of the fruit, passage through the digestive tract, and expulsion of the seeds, a process that allows scarification and dispersal of the seeds ...
Fabián Alejandro Rubalcava‐Castillo +6 more
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Effects of bear endozoochory on germination and dispersal of huckleberry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBerries are a staple of bear diets during late summer and fall in the southern Rocky Mountains, enabling bears to build up fat reserves and prepare to enter torpor during winter. In turn, bears can benefit fruiting shrubs through dispersal of their seeds.
Aza Fynley Kuijt +2 more
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Lichen endozoochory by snails. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Endozoochory plays a prominent role for the dispersal of seed plants. However, for most other plant taxa it is not known whether this mode of dispersal occurs at all.
Steffen Boch +4 more
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Endozoochory by brown bears stimulates germination in bilberry [PDF]
Wildlife Biology, 2019 The understory vegetation of the Eurasian boreal forest is dominated by several ericaceous species (e.g. bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus). These species invest large amounts of energy in their sexual reproduction by producing seed-containing berries, which are apparent adaptations for endozoochory.
Sam Steyaert +2 more
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Spitting Seeds From the Cud: A Review of an Endozoochory Exclusive to Ruminants [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Given their strong masticatory system and the powerful microbial digestion inside their complex guts, mammalian ruminants have been frequently considered seed predators rather than seed dispersers.
Miguel Delibes +6 more
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Seed mass, hardness, and phylogeny explain the potential for endozoochory by granivorous waterbirds [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 AbstractField studies have shown that waterbirds, especially members of the Anatidae family, are major vectors of dispersal by endozoochory for a broad range of plants lacking a fleshy fruit, yet whose propagules can survive gut passage. Widely adopted dispersal syndromes ignore this dispersal mechanism, and we currently have little understanding of ...
Orsolya Vincze +2 more
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Endozoochory of aquatic ferns and angiosperms by mallards in Central Europe [PDF]
Journal of Ecology, 2018 Abstract Modern literature on plant dispersal by birds focuses mainly on the importance of frugivory and scatter‐hoarding, yet recent studies show that endozoochory by migratory waterbirds is an important mechanism of long‐distance dispersal for a broad range of plants. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical field studies that identify the plants
Orsolya Vincze +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 The widely accepted "endozoochory syndrome" is assigned to angiosperm diaspores with a fleshy, attractive tissue and implies the existence of adaptations for protection against digestion during gut passage. This syndrome has led diaspore fleshiness to be
Andy J Green +2 more
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Experimental Endozoochory of Cannabis sativa Achenes
Medical Cannabis and Cannabinoids, 2018 The mechanism by which Cannabis sativa dispersed from its center of origin remains an open question. The literature provides many hypotheses, which we review for the first time, but experiments are few.
John M. McPartland, Steve G. Naraine
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Bird‐mediated endozoochory as a potential dispersal mechanism of bony fishes
EcographyThe dispersal of fish into distant and isolated habitats remains a topic of continuous discussion in the field of fish biogeography. This is particularly relevant due to the perceived limitation of fish movement to what is known as active dispersal.
Orsolya Vincze +2 more
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