Are plant species able to keep pace with the rapidly changing climate? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Future climate change is predicted to advance faster than the postglacial warming. Migration may therefore become a key driver for future development of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Sarah Cunze +2 more
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Do interspecific hybrids lead to new evolutionary avenues in the plant family Lemnaceae? [PDF]
New PhytolNew Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 1, Page 9-11, April 2026.
Sree KS, Appenroth KJ.
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Seed Dispersal as a Multiphase Process: Integrating Abiotic and Biotic Vectors Across Ecological Gradients. [PDF]
Ecol EvolRaccoon specimen, seed disperser through endozoochory. ABSTRACT Seed dispersal is a dynamic process through which diaspores (seeds or seed‐bearing fruits) are detached from the mother plant, transported to different sites in the landscape that offer physical protection, competitive advantages, or lower predation risk.
Rubalcava-Castillo FA +4 more
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Putative 'Dispersal Adaptations' Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can. [PDF]
Ecol LettIt is widely assumed that adaptations for long‐distance dispersal are identifiable from seed and fruit traits used to define ‘dispersal syndromes’. Sixty years of monitoring a new island allowed us to test whether syndromes predict which plant species have colonised.
Wasowicz P +3 more
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Effective dispersal of fern spore and the ecological relevance of zoochory. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT The mechanisms of fern dispersal are under‐studied and there are few data to support the vectors assumed to drive patterns of sporophyte occurrence and speciation. Although wind is generally the fern spore dispersal vector described in the literature, there has always been competing evidence supporting alternate vectors.
Brock JMR.
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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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Endozoochory largely outweighs epizoochory in migrating passerines [PDF]
Journal of Avian Biology, 2013 Fruits and seeds are critical food sources for many European passerines during the autumn migration, which in turn contribute to disperse seeds either internally, i.e. after ingestion (endozoochory), or externally, when seeds adhere to the body surface (epizoochory).
Costa, José M. +10 more
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Escape from the garden: spreading, effects and traits of a new risky invasive ornamental plant (Gaillardia aristata Pursh) [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2023 Ornamental plants constitute a major source of invasive species. Gaillardia aristata (great blanketflower) is planted worldwide and its escape has been reported in several European countries without ecological impact assessment on the invasive potential.
Gabriella Süle +6 more
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Laundry washing increases dispersal efficiency of cloth-dispersed propagules [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2020 Due to increased human mobility, cloth-dispersed propagules can be transported over long distances, which would not have been bridged otherwise. We studied a potentially important component of human-mediated seed dispersal by assessing the effects of ...
Orsolya Valkó +11 more
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Woodpeckers can act as dispersal vectors for fungi, plants, and microorganisms
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Bird‐mediated dispersal is presumed to be important in the dissemination of many different types of organisms, but concrete evidence remains scarce. This is especially true for biota producing microscopic propagules.
Niko R. Johansson +2 more
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