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The Flooding Gradient Affects Seed Dispersal by Fruit‐Eating Fishes in Amazonian Whitewater Floodplain Forests

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
This research approaches the interaction between frugivorous fish and the flooded forests in the central Amazon. We evaluated the fruit consumption by fish and the seed dispersal potential along the flood gradient. We tested the hypothesis that the role of fish as seed dispersers varies between low várzea (LV) and high várzea (HV) forests.
Gilvan Costa, Sandra Bibiana Correa, Florian Wittmann, Jochen Schöngart, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade, Efrem Jorge Ferreira, Leonardo Maltchik   +6 more
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Síndromes de dispersão de sementes em três trechos de vegetação ciliar (nascente, meio e foz) ao longo do rio Pindaíba, MT Seed dispersal syndromes in three riparian vegetation sites (source, middle and estuary) along the Pindaíba river, Mato Grosso state, Brazil

Revista Árvore, 2009
Este estudo foi desenvolvido visando identificar as proporções entre as síndromes de dispersão e os tipos de frutos encontrados em três áreas: nascente (Cerrado Rupestre), meio e foz (mata ciliar Floresta Estacional Semidecidual) ao longo do Rio Pindaíba,
Daniel Stefanello, Clarissa Fernandes-Bulhão, Sebastião Venâncio Martins   +2 more
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Impacts of Highland cattle browsing on encroaching Alnus viridis shrubs

Restoration Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 4, May 2026.
Abstract Introduction In several European mountain chains, the expansion of the tall shrub Alnus viridis into mountain pastures has altered vegetation structure and composition, reduced plant species diversity, and diminished forage quality. Recent woody encroachment research has explored the use of robust livestock breeds, such as Highland cattle (Bos
Lucía S. Mochi, Pierre Mariotte, Massimiliano Probo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Síndromes de dispersão de Angiospermas em uma Unidade de Conservação na Caatinga, SE, Brasil

Hoehnea
O presente estudo teve por objetivos caracterizar os tipos de frutos e as síndromes de dispersão de Angiospermas no Monumento Natural Grota do Angico, localizado nos municípios de Canindé de São Francisco e Poço Redondo, SE, Brasil.
Ana Cecília da Cruz Silva, Ana Paula do Nascimento Prata, Anabel Aparecida de Mello, Ana Cláudia Alencar da Silva Santos   +3 more
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Flora and Annual Distribution of Flowers and Fruits in the Ubajara National Park, Ceará, Brazil

Floresta e Ambiente, 2020
Although the conservation of tropical biodiversity depends on protected areas, there is still a very large ‘gap’ of knowledge on the flora of Brazilian reserves, especially in the Northeast region of Brazil.
Andréa Pereira Silveira, Bruno Sousa de Menezes, Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola, Luiz Wilson Lima-Verde, Dalva Neta e Zanina, Ellen Cristina Dantas de Carvalho, Bruno Cruz de Souza, Rafael Carvalho da Costa, Waldir Mantovani, Marcelo Oliveira Teles de Menezes, Lilian Maria Araújo Flores, Francisco Carlos Barboza Nogueira, Ligia Queiroz Matias, Lívia Silvia Barbosa, Fernanda Melo Gomes, Luciana Silva Cordeiro, Valéria da Silva Sampaio, Maria Edenilce Peixoto Batista, Raimundo Luciano Soares Neto, Maria Arlene Pessoa da Silva, Natália Barbosa Campos, Arycelle Alves de Oliveira, Francisca Soares de Araujo   +22 more
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Vegetational Characteristics in Natural Habitat and Population Structure of the Endangered Plant Tigridiopalma Genus

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
First comprehensive ecological assessment of the endangered genus Tigridiopalma, covering two China endemic Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP), T. magnifica and the newly described T. exalata. T. magnifica exhibits broader habitat diversity and understory resilience, while T.
Peishan Zou, Xirong Zheng, Shiou Yih Lee, Chunzhi Liu, Zhijun Xie, Ke Zheng, Guofeng Liu, Seping Dai   +7 more
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By Animal, Water, or Wind: Can Dispersal Mode Predict Genetic Connectivity in Riverine Plant Species?

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Seed dispersal is crucial to gene flow among plant populations. Although the effects of geographic distance and barriers to gene flow are well studied in many systems, it is unclear how seed dispersal mediates gene flow in conjunction with interacting ...
A. G. Nazareno, L. Knowles, C. Dick, L. Lohmann   +3 more
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Successional trajectories of seed dispersal mode and seed size of canopy tree species in wet tropical forests

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, Amanda L. Wendt, Robin L. Chazdon, Robin L. Chazdon, Orlando Vargas Ramirez   +4 more
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Asphalted parking lots are environmental filters for multiple propagule dispersal and pollination strategies

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 4, April 2026.
Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee, Myla F. J. Aronson, Jens Kattge, Lena Struwe   +3 more
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Trophic and spatial complementarity on seed dispersal services by birds, wild mammals, and cattle in a Mediterranean woodland pasture

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, Daniel García, Mauro Galetti, Tommaso La Mantia   +3 more
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