Epizoochory in Parrots as an Overlooked Yet Widespread Plant–Animal Mutualism [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Plant–animal interactions are key to sustaining whole communities and ecosystem function. However, their complexity may limit our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and the species involved.
Guillermo Blanco +2 more
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Estimated epizoochory seed dispersal distances by grazing yak across seasons in an alpine meadow [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionEpizoochorous dispersal of grassland plants by large herbivores is an important way by which grassland plants achieve population expansion over long distances. However, little is known about the maximum distance that seeds can be dispersed by
Shulin Wang
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High potential of sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands for sheep epizoochory [PDF]
Open Life Sciences, 2016 There is a general decline of grasslands across Europe due to habitat loss and degradation. Ensuring plant dispersal thus becomes a key process for preserving grassland patches in all scales.
Mitja Kaligarič
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EPIZOOCHORY IN DRY FOREST IGUANAS: AN OVERLOOKED SEED DISPERSAL MECHANISM?
Colombia Forestal, 2015 The role of animals as seed dispersal vectors is widely acknowledged, including dispersal by reptiles (saurochory). Most reports of saurochory have been via endozoochory, through feces deposition.
Lucas Santiago Barrientos, Eloisa Lasso
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Epizoochory by large herbivores: merging data with models
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2008 Summary The dispersal of plant seeds in the fur of large herbivores (epizoochory) is an important but complex long-distance dispersal mechanism. We developed a spatially explicit simulation model of epizoochorous seed dispersal, which was parameterized based on empirical studies of the movement and behaviour of donkeys, and the distribution, seed ...
Kris Verheyen +2 more
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Evolutionary diversification of the African achyranthoid clade (Amaranthaceae) in the context of sterile flower evolution and epizoochory [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2018 Many African genera of the Amaranthaceae exhibit unique inflorescences that include sterile flowers modified to hooks or spines. Considering that the abundance of large terrestrial herbivores increased on the African continent with the expansion of grassland and savannah ecosystems, modified sterile flowers could have been an innovation that boosted ...
Michael Gruenstaeudl, Lars Nauheimer
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EuDiS - A comprehensive database of the seed dispersal syndromes of the European flora [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Seed dispersal is a critical process in plant colonisation and demography. Fruits and seeds can be transported by several vectors (typically animals, wind and water), which may have exerted strong selective pressures on plant’s morphological traits.
Pablo Vargas, Ruben Heleno, José Costa
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Context-dependent plant–bird interactions shape polychory across the antagonism–mutualism continuum [PDF]
Communications BiologyAnimals feeding on plants may benefit them through seed dispersal or harm them through seed predation, causing net interaction outcomes along an antagonism–mutualism continuum that remains poorly understood.
Dailos Hernández-Brito +4 more
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Mechanisms underlying patchy distribution pattern and spread of the invasive species Solanum rostratum (Solanaceae) in the Agro-Pastoral region of Northern China [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionUnderstanding the mechanisms driving patchy distribution patterns is crucial for managing invasive species. This study investigates the multi-vector dispersal dynamics underlying the patchy spread of Solanum rostratum in the Agro-Pastoral ...
Qian-Mei Wu +6 more
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Seed Size, Not Dispersal Syndrome, Determines Potential for Spread of Ricefield Weeds by Gulls [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Recent field data suggest that migratory gulls disperse many rice field weeds by gut passage (endozoochory), most of which are dry fruited and widely assumed to have no long-distance dispersal mechanisms, except via human activity.
Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez +8 more
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