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Dispersal mode mediates the seed functional traits of woody plants’ responses to urbanization in remnant forest patches

Trees, Forests and People
Urban remnant forests are essential for biodiversity conservation within city landscapes, facing direct impacts from urbanization and indirect changes from surrounding land use alterations that affect seed dispersal and plant diversity.
Minglu Guo, Zijin Wang, Yanjun Zheng, Ying Pan, Jingyi Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D Bioprinting of Thick Adipose Tissues with Integrated Vascular Hierarchies

Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 35, Issue 12, March 18, 2025.
An advanced 3D bioprinting technique is used here to create thick adipose tissues with a central, vessel and extensive branching. The construct is made using alginate, gelatin and collagen‐based bioinks. Flow through the complex vessel network is demonstrated as well as its successful integration with a femoral artery following implantation in a rat ...
Idit Goldfracht, Majd Machour, Inbal Michael, Maria Bulatova, Janette Zavin, Shulamit Levenberg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting dispersal of auto-gyrating fruit in tropical trees : a case study from the Dipterocarpaceae [PDF]

, 2015
Acknowledgments We thank the Sabah Forestry Department for access to SFR and the Rainforest Discovery Center for use of the canopy tower. JRS is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) grant number PDFMP3_132479/1.
Aoki, Ashton, Augspurger, Augspurger, Bagchi, Bohrer, Chesson, Connell, Curran, Damschen, Davies, Fisher, Fontan, Fox, Fox, Gelman, Green, Greene, Greene, Hanski, Hubbell, Itoh, Janzen, Kuparinen, Matlack, Maurer, Maycock, McGill, Nathan, Nathan, Nathan, Newbery, Newman, Newman, Osada, Poorter, Rees, Ridley, Seidler, Sodhi, Soons, Suzuki, Tackenberg, Tamari, Tilman, Webber, Wells, Westoby, Westoby, Whitmore, Whitmore, Wilcove, Wright   +52 more
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A Vascularized Microphysiological System Reproducing Endochondral Ossification in Vitro to Study Ewing Sarcoma Proliferation and Migration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A biofabricated 3D in vitro model recapitulating endochondral ossification (ECO) is described, mimicking the steps from condensation to chondrogenesis and hypertrophy, culminating with vascularization of the hypertrophic construct. As a model proof of concept application, Ewing Sarcoma cells are seeded in the model, showing modifications in their ...
Maria Vittoria Colombo, Chiara Arrigoni, Tobias Faehling, Antonietta Verrillo, Viviana Secci, Thomas G. P. Grünewald, Giuseppe Talò, Alexandra Kummer, Jorge Gonzalez, Vincenzo De Rosa, Christian Candrian, Andrea Barbero, Florencia Cidre‐Aranaz, Matteo Moretti   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endozoochory by the cooperation between beetles and ants in the holoparasitic plant Cynomorium songaricum in the deserts of Northwest China.

PLoS ONE
Cynomorium songaricum Rupr. first described by Carl Johann (Ivanovič) Ruprecht in 1840 is a desert parasitic plant that mainly parasitizes the roots of Nitraria L. (especially of Nitraria tangutorum Bobrov., Nitraria sibirica Pall.).
Zhi Wang, Huan Guan, Bingzhen Li, Qianqian Zhang, Qing Chen, Dehui Wang, Kexin He, Zikang Jin, Guilin Chen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bird functional traits affect seed dispersal patterns of China’s endangered trees across different disturbed habitats

Avian Research, 2018
Background The most dominant global threat to natural forests and their biodiversity is land-cover change, which has negative impacts on both species persistence and ecosystem functions.
Ning Li, Zheng Wang, Xinhai Li, Zhaohui Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The conservation physiology of seed dispersal [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2012
At a time when plant species are experiencing increasing challenges from climate change, land-use change, harvesting and invasive species, dispersal has become a very important aspect of plant conservation. Seed dispersal by animals is particularly important because some animals disperse seeds to suitable sites in a directed fashion. Our review has two
H. Martin Schaefer, Graeme D. Ruxton
openaire   +3 more sources

The ecological significance of secondary seed dispersal by carnivores

, 2017
Animals play an important role in the seed dispersal of many plants. It is increasingly recognized, however, that the actions of a single disperser rarely determine a seed's fate and final location; rather, multiple abiotic or animal dispersal vectors ...
Anni M. Hämäläinen, Kate Broadley, A. Droghini, J. A. Haines, C. Lamb, S. Boutin, S. Gilbert   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Route to Artery Mimetics: Hybrid Bioinks for Embedded Bioprinting of Multimaterial Cylindrical Models

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The fabrication of a cellularized, multilayered 3D printed cylindrical model comprising hybrid bioinks inspired by the natural extracellular environment as an approach to artery mimetics, is presented. Using embedded bioprinting, interlayer crosslinking of self‐supporting concentric cylinders is achieved.
Uxue Aizarna‐Lopetegui, Ada Herrero‐Ruiz, Monize C. Decarli, Ane Urigoitia‐Asua, Karla Chavarri‐Urraca, Lorenzo Moroni, Malou Henriksen‐Lacey, Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the mutualism-antagonism continuum for seed removal by a granivorous disperser

Basic and Applied Ecology
Seeds removed by animals have one of two mutually exclusive fates – they are either predated or dispersed and still alive. The quality of seed dispersal by animals and the number of predated seeds will therefore determine net interaction outcomes for ...
Finn Rehling, Eelke Jongejans, Nina Farwig, Dana G. Schabo   +3 more
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