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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Despite the critical role of seed dispersal for tree colonization during forest succession in wet tropical forests, successional trajectories of seed dispersal modes are poorly documented at the community level.
Amanda L. Wendt +4 more
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The extension of the taxon cycle model to island plants: insights from the Canarian vascular flora
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 2053-2076, August 2026.ABSTRACT Taxon cycle models describe eco‐evolutionary patterns of lineage colonization, diversification, and decline across archipelagos, inferring an important role for competition amongst ecologically similar taxa in driving concurrent niche changes.
José María Fernández‐Palacios +2 more
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Morphobiometric characterization of dry fruits, seeds, seedlings, and young plants from a Cerrado fragment in the Caatinga Domain, Brazilian semiarid [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasKnowledge about the morphology of diaspores and early growth enables a better understanding of the dynamics of plant communities. The objectives of this study were to characterize the morphobiometrics of fruits and seeds, analyze germination and initial ...
CÍNTIA LARISSA P. DA SILVA +5 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Most earth surfaces have undergone intensive land-use changes, creating habitat mosaics. Seed dispersal by animals is a crucial process in such mosaics, but community-wide studies comparing the functional complementarity and response to man-imposed ...
Rafael da Silveira Bueno +3 more
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Zoochorie et premiers stades de la régénération naturelle après coupe en forêt guyanaise
Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie), 1984 Processes leading to forest regeneration in a mature rain forest of French Guiana were studied on six plots representing initial stages of regeneration, from 2 to 10 years following clear-cutting. The first woody species to appear in plots after tree felling are light demanding species growing from seeds remaining dormant in the rain forest soil.
Foresta, H. +3 more
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Regeneration Strategies in Seed Plants: A Continuum Shaping Survival
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.Seed plants dominate terrestrial ecosystems in part because regeneration is not a single event, but a coordinated sequence of traits acting across time and space. Here, we synthesize regeneration strategies in seed plants as a continuous, integrated framework spanning pre‐germination regulation, germination timing, seedling emergence, soil seed banking,
Keyvan Maleki, Elias Soltani
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Food resource richness increases seed disperser visitations and seed rain richness
Ecology and EvolutionWithin 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.
James P. Holdgrafer +3 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2012 Fruit color and odor are the main features regulating the rate of fruit predation and dispersal. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of odor and color on fruit predators and dispersers.
Aliny Oliveira Barcelos +2 more
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Driver's Seat: Understanding Divergent Zoochorous Dispersal of Propagules
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The functional role, relative importance, and the spatial and temporal parameters of different vector species, which underpin the passive dispersal (zoochory) of organisms (or their propagules), are frequently poorly understood. Accordingly, a conceptual
Neil E. Coughlan +9 more
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Threats to Nature's Contributions to People Provided by Terrestrial Vertebrates Across Europe
Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Species and ecosystem processes provide essential benefits to people, known as Nature's Contributions to People (NCP). However, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of NCP provided by terrestrial vertebrates on a macroecological scale, and of the threats they face. To address this, we built a comprehensive dataset that documents the
Louise M. J. O'Connor +10 more
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