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Extended seed rain period of Adenostoma fasciculatum impacts diverse seed predators. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 AimsThe principal chaparral species in California,Adenostoma fasciculatum, an evergreen, sclerophyllous shrub, is broadly distributed and provides habitat and food resources for a large and diverse animal community. The effects of climate change, including elevated temperatures, fire frequency and severity, along with increased urban encroachment, have
Garaventa JM, Parker VT.
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Food resource richness increases seed disperser visitations and seed rain richness. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAbstractWithin the context of global change, seed dispersal research often focuses on changes in disperser communities (i.e., seed dispersers, such as birds, in an area) resulting from habitat fragmentation. This approach may not be completely illustrative due to certain seed disperser communities being more robust to fragmentation.
Holdgrafer JP +3 more
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Seed-Rain–Successional Feedbacks in Wet Tropical Forests
Ecology, 2021 Abstract Tropical forest regeneration after abandonment of former agricultural land depends critically on the input of tree seeds, yet seed dispersal is increasingly disrupted in contemporary human‐modified landscapes. Here, we introduce the concept of seed‐rain–successional feedbacks as a deterministic process in which seed rain is ...
Nohemi Huanca-Nunez +2 more
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Interspecific Synchrony of Seed Rain Shapes Rodent-Mediated Indirect Seed–Seed Interactions of Sympatric Tree Species in a Subtropical Forest [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 2020 Xifu Yang, Chuan Yan, Zhang Zhibin
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Seasonal Variation in Seed Dispersal by Tamarins Alters Seed Rain in a Secondary Rain Forest [PDF]
International Journal of Primatology, 2010 Reduced dispersal of large seeds into degraded areas is one of the major factors limiting rain forest regeneration, as many seed dispersers capable of transporting large seeds avoid these sites with a limited forest cover. However, the small size of tamarins allows them to use small trees, and hence to disperse seeds into young secondary forests ...
Culot, Laurence +4 more
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Seed rain and advanced regeneration in a tropical rain forest [PDF]
Vegetatio, 1993 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) By comparing seed rain, seedling and sapling community structures we assessed the possible role played by vertebrate seed dispersal as a structuring factor in advanced regeneration of closed-canopied sites in the tropical rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico.
Martinez-Ramos, M., Soto-Castro, A.
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Seed Production, Seed Rain, and the Seedbank of Fringed Sagebrush [PDF]
Journal of Range Management, 1997 Increases in fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida Willd.) following disturbance on Northern Mixed Prairie are due to enhanced growth of established plants and seedling recruitment. The roles of seed production and the soil seedbank in population dynamics of fringed sagebrush following disturbance are, however, unknown.
Yuguang Bai, J. T. Romo
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Effectiveness of Seed Traps for Assessing Seed Rain in Periurban Grasslands
Diversity, 2023 Landscape context plays an important role in plant community structuring, with selection pressure affecting dispersal ability. This is particularly true in cities, where land use heterogeneity and habitat fragmentation can affect plant dispersal patterns. Seed rain surveys are often used to study dispersal but involve a wide variety of methods and trap
Gros, Clément +4 more
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Effect of Bat Exclusion on Patterns of Seed Rain in Tropical Rain Forest in French Guiana [PDF]
Biotropica, 2007 ABSTRACTTo assess the impact of bats on seed dispersal in a tropical mature forest (Nouragues, French Guiana), we conducted a bat exclusion experiment and tested the hypotheses that an artificial reduction in the abundance of bats would result in: (1) a decrease in seed species diversity, at the community level; and (2) an increase in seed limitation ...
Henry, Mickael, Jouard, Sylvie
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The restricted seed rain of a mistletoe specialist
Journal of Avian Biology, 2012 Specialist frugivores are the dominant consumers of mistletoe fruit in many regions and have been shown to intensify infections of host plants as a result of their rapid gut passage rates and dependence on existing infections.
Rawsthorne, J. +2 more
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