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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.
Steyaert, Sam M. J. G. +2 more
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Endozoochory by Goats of Two Invasive Weeds with Contrasted Propagule Traits [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Invasive plants have very important ecological and socioeconomic impacts. Producing and dispersing many viable seeds are key plant functional traits for invaders. Ungulate grazing plays an important role in the endozoochorous seed dispersal within grasslands and rangelands.
Ahmed M. Abbas +7 more
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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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Herb endozoochory by cockatoos: Is ‘foliage the fruit’? [PDF]
Austral Ecology, 2019 AbstractEstablishing whether herb seed endozoochory is accidental or has evolved independently or in combination with other dispersal mechanisms may be valuable in the study of plant–animal interactions, but it remains unexplored for birds. We tested whether an Australian cockatoo, the galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), swallows entire seeds when feeding ...
Guillermo Blanco +5 more
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Constant gardeners: Endozoochory promotes repeated seedling recruitment in clonal plants [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2021 AbstractParadoxically, seedlings of clonal plants are rarely observed in nature, despite many of these species producing large amounts of seeds every fruiting season. Studies about clonal plants’ recruitment strategies are usually based on experiments carried out under controlled conditions (e.g., laboratory) and rarely consider frugivores’ effects. We
García Rodríguez, Alberto +1 more
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Endozoochory by lowland tapirs improves seed germinability and accelerates germination time of native plant species in an Amazon-Cerrado transition restoration area [PDF]
Acta AmazonicaEndozoochory by lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) is regarded as a key seed dispersal mechanism in tropical forests and thus potentially useful for ecological restoration. Although previous studies attested the germination ability of seeds defecated by
Lucinere P. PINTO +3 more
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Diversity, 2022 Epi- and endozoochory are well explored phenomena that contribute to the distribution patterns of plant seeds, spores or fruits by vertebrates. It is less known how soil algae may be redistributed due to analogous interactions.
Olexandr Pakhomov +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 It is well-known that some members of the crow family (Corvidae) are important for seed dispersal either via frugivory (e.g., when feeding on berries) or by scatter hoarding (e.g., of nuts). Dispersal via gut passage of seeds within a fleshy fruit can be
Andy J. Green +2 more
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Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits of potential importance to environmental filtering [PDF]
, 2009 Environmental filtering is a fundamental process in the ecological assembly of communities. Recently developed phylogenetic tools identify patterns associated with environmental filtering across whole communities.
Ackerly, David D. +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
Mihai Costea +6 more
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