Secondary seed removal in a degraded forest habitat in Madagascar
Scientific Reports, 2021 Forest restoration is a prime goal within the 2021–2030 UN “Decade of Ecosystem Resoration”. As part of these activities, natural regeneration has to be promoted for biological as well as for economic reasons.
Paula M. A. Fiedler +5 more
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Germination responses to light of four Neotropical forest tree species along an elevational gradient in the southern Central Andes [PDF]
, 2020 Seed germination is a key part of plants' life cycle and is mostly affected by the genetic background, the environmental conditions experienced by the mother plant and the seedbed conditions.
Caron, Maria Mercedes +4 more
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Reunion overseas: introduced wild boars and cultivated orange trees interact in the Brazilian Atlantic forest [PDF]
, 2019 Little is known concerning novel interactions between species that typically interact in their native range but, as a consequence of human activity, are also interacting out of their original distribution under new ecological conditions.
Borges, R. +6 more
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Natural experiment demonstrates that bird loss leads to cessation of dispersal of native seeds from intact to degraded forests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In healthy forests, vertebrate frugivores move seeds from intact to degraded forests, aiding in the passive regeneration of degraded forests. Yet vertebrate frugivores are declining around the world, and little is known about the impact of this loss on ...
Eleanor M Caves +4 more
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Effect of Coriaria arborea on seed banks during primary succession on Mt Tarawera, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2002 An experiment was conducted over two years to investigate the effect of Coriaria arborea, a native nitrogen-fixing shrub, on soil seed banks at sites representing a post-volcanic successional sequence on Mt Tarawera, New Zealand.
Clarkson, Beverley R. +3 more
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Seed rain into upland plant communities in Hong Kong, China [PDF]
, 2006 Hong Kong is an extreme example of tropical landscape degradation, with no substantial remnants of the original forest cover and a highly impoverished disperser fauna.
Au, AYY, Corlett, RT, Hau, BCH
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Regeneration in gap models: priority issues for studying forest responses to climate change [PDF]
, 2001 Recruitment algorithms in forest gap models are examined with particular regard to their suitability for simulating forest ecosystem responses to a changing climate. The traditional formulation of recruitment is found limiting in three areas.
Clark, D.F. +11 more
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Seeds, 2023 Tetrazolium test (TZT) can quickly evaluate in detail the viability and vigor of seeds. This study aimed to determine the optimal conditions for conducting the TZT on seeds of Handroanthus spongiosus.
Jailton de Jesus Silva +4 more
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Botanical Sciences, 2014 The soil seed bank has a limited role in the seasonal dry tropical forest regeneration process, but seed removal and germination can also be limiting factors during the early forest recovery.
Claudia Alvarez-Aquino +3 more
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A look at seed dispersal via mammal droppings [PDF]
, 2014 Terrestrial mammals are good dispersers of the fruits and seeds of seasonal rainforest in the Gulf of Mexico. Their importance lies in the huge quantity of fruit and seeds they consume, and their daily and seasonal movement through natural and secondary ...
Guevara Sada, Sergio +2 more
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