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Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2013 Herbivores can play an important role as seed dispersal vectors, ungulates constituting potential seed dispersal agents of Mediterranean grasses and shrubs.
D. Grande +3 more
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Internal and External Dispersal of Plants by Animals: An Aquatic Perspective on Alien Interference
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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Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by Carnivorans
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Seed dispersal is critical to the ecological performance of sexually reproducing plant species and the communities that they form. The Mammalian order Carnivora provide valuable and effective seed dispersal services but tend to be overlooked in much of ...
John P. Draper +9 more
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Effects of Aeschynomene histrix Poir. seed treatment on germination
Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2021 Description of the subject. Poor germination associated with physical dormancy was experienced in the legume Aeschynomene histrix Poir. seeds and can reduce the establishment and growth of this species. Objectives. To evaluate the effects of different
Sébastien Adjolohoun +2 more
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Basic and Applied Ecology, 2005 Seed dispersal via ingestion and defecation by large herbivores provides a possible aid for ecological restoration of plant communities, by connecting source communities of target species with habitat restoration sites. It is also a possible threat due to invasion of weeds, grasses or exotic species.
Mouissie, Albert M +3 more
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SeedsInternal transport (endozoochory) and external transport (epizoochory) by migratory waterbirds are key mechanisms of long-distance dispersal for seeds and other diaspores of plants lacking a fleshy fruit.
Andy J. Green, David M. Wilkinson
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A Review on the Role of Endozoochory in Seed Germination
, 2007 Acknowledgements. We are grateful to the organizers of the Symposium for all their efforts and help, and to Andrew Dennis, Eric Cosyns and Jordi Figuerola for useful comments on the manuscript. This chapter is framed within project CGL2004–04884-CO2–01/BOS, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science awarded to A.T.
A. Traveset +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 How flightless animals disperse to remote oceanic islands is a key unresolved question in biogeography. The flightless Pachyrhynchus weevils represent repetitive colonization history in West Pacific islands, which attracted our interests about how some ...
Si‐Min Lin +5 more
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Potential and realised contribution of endozoochory to seedling establishment
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2009 Abstract Many plant species have been shown to be dispersed by large herbivores through endozoochory, but there have been few studies that have demonstrated the ecological significance of this dispersal method. Known quantities of seeds were fed to sheep and the emergence of seeds germinating from dung in the field and glasshouse were compared with ...
R.J. Pakeman, J.L. Small
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Endozoochory decreases environmental filtering imposed to seedlings
Journal of Vegetation Science, 2012 AbstractQuestionsRecruitment microsites are imposed on plants, first by seed dispersal and then by the environment. Different seed dispersal vectors could decrease or increase the environmental filtering imposed on seedlings, depending on their specificity to deliver seeds to suitable microsites for germination and establishment.
Cavallero, Laura +2 more
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