Multiple lines and levels of evidence for avian zoochory promoting fish colonization of artificial lakes. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2023 Understanding how obligate freshwater organisms colonize seemingly isolated ecosystems has long fascinated ecologists. While recent investigations reveal that fish eggs can survive the digestive tract of birds and successfully hatch once deposited, evidence for avian zoochory in natura is still lacking.
Garcia F +4 more
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Seeds and the City: The Interdependence of Zoochory and Ecosystem Dynamics in Urban Environments [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The increasing urban sprawl has contributed to the extensive fragmentation and reduction of natural habitat worldwide. Urbanization has a range of adverse effects on ecosystem functioning, including the disruption of plant dispersal processes across the ...
Tiziana A. Gelmi-Candusso +2 more
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Zoochorous dispersal of freshwater bivalves: an overlooked vector in biological invasions? [PDF]
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2017 Vectors that underpin the natural dispersal of invasive alien species are frequently unknown. In particular, the passive dispersal (zoochory) of one organism (or propagule) by another, usually more mobile animal, remains poorly understood.
Coughlan Neil E. +4 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 ...
Brock JMR.
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Floristic and ecological attributes of a Seasonal Semideciduous Atlantic Forest in a key area for conservation of the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais State, Brazil [PDF]
Hoehnea, 2017 We evaluated the floristic and ecological attributes of a seasonal semideciduous forest remnant (SSF) (500-1,050 m) located in a key area for biodiversity conservation.
Maria José Reis da Rocha +4 more
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Non-Native Flora of the Mediterranean Lesvos Island (East Aegean, Greece): Floristic Analysis, Traits, and Assessment [PDF]
PlantsA checklist of Lesvos Island’s non-native vascular flora is presented. Through the literature and a roadside survey, we recorded 187 non-native plant taxa, representing 12% of the total regional flora.
Alexandros Galanidis +2 more
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Dispersal syndromes of Vachellia caven: Dismantling introduction hypotheses and the role of man as a conceptual support for an archaeophyte in South America [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Vachellia caven has a disjunct distribution at the southern cone of South America, occupying two major ranges: west of Andes (Central Chile) and east of them (mainly the South American Gran Chaco).
Nicolás Velasco +2 more
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On ability of perch to colonize new waterbodies-indirect evidence and sticky facts. A Comment on: 'Multiple lines and levels of evidence for avian zoochory promoting fish colonization of artificial lakes' (2023), by Garcia et al. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2023 Vasemägi A +4 more
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Plant dispersal syndromes are unreliable, especially for predicting zoochory and long‐distance dispersal [PDF]
Oikos, 2021 Plant dispersal syndromes are allocated based on diaspore morphology and used to predict the dominant mechanisms of dispersal. Many authors assume that only angiosperms with endozoochory, epizoochory or anemochory syndromes have a long‐distance dispersal (LDD) mechanism.
Andy J. Green +2 more
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Diversity, 2022 Interspecific biotic interaction is believed to be a fundamental phenomenon in ecology. However, despite the increasing efforts, interaction mechanisms are still not clearly understood.
Mauro Fois +4 more
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