In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely...

Seed dispersal syndromes are morphological characters of seeds correlated to particular seed dispersal agents. Dispersal is the event by which individuals...

Seed dispersal is important for plants because it allows their progeny to move away from their parents over time. The advantages of seed dispersal may...

categories, pre-dispersal and post-dispersal predation, which affect the fitness of the parental plant and the dispersed offspring (the seed), respectively...

such as seeds and spores. Technically, dispersal is defined as any movement that has the potential to lead to gene flow. The act of dispersal involves...

to the method of seed dispersal; that being the purpose of fruit - to encourage or enable the seed's dispersal and protect the seed while doing so. Following...

alpine environments. These birds play a critical ecological role in seed dispersal, contributing to the regeneration of forests in these protected areas...

the dispersal distance. E. cicutarium with larger seeds have a longer coil and uncoil time compare to smaller seeds. In the field, the rate of seed burial...

either as seed dispersal agents or as seed predators, or both. During the day, these ants search the savannas for vegetation and plant seeds, and carry...

nourishment and shelter for the ant and its larvae. Seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited...

will reproduce. These dispersal units can range from pollen to seeds to fungi to entire organisms. There are two types of dispersal vector, those that are...

area. In autumn, the bears have a greater seed dispersal rate and usually the males have a larger dispersal areas than females. There has been a huge...

squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a means of seed dispersal, an example of rapid plant movement. Look up squirting cucumber...

to determine how the seeds of C. fistula are dispersed. He found that golden jackals feed on the fruits and help in seed dispersal. It is used in Vishu...

a sticky seed for dispersal. The seed sticks to nearby animals and birds and then comes into direct contact with the host. Arceuthobium seeds have a similarly...

the environment of altitudinally migrating species can also affect seed dispersal. Species that exhibit altitudinal migration can be found in almost every...

and seeds. The seeds are then passed through the birds’ digestive system and dispersed to new environments via defecation. Bird dispersal for seeds has...

such as movement from their birth site Dispersal vector, forces that carry seeds for plants Oceanic dispersal, the movement of terrestrial organisms from...

evolutionary anachronism—that is, a fruit coevolved with a large animal seed dispersal partner that is now extinct. This hypothesis is controversial. Maclura...

dispersed in both space and time. The patterns of seed dispersal are determined in large part by the dispersal mechanism and this has important implications...

glacial maximum, at a faster rate than the seed dispersal rates commonly occur. Rare long-distance seed dispersal events have been hypothesized to explain...

their seeds (ballistic dispersal), or use gravity so that seeds fall and sometimes roll. Seeds are the primary way that trees reproduce and their seeds vary...

animal species' attainment of hydration, nutrition, reproduction and/or seed dispersal. Biological evolution created hygroscopic solutions for water harvesting...

dormancy depth, and dispersal. Since the evolution of the first seeded plants ~370 million years ago, the largest change in seed size was found to be...

This rodent buries seeds whole in locations favorable for seed germination, unlike other animals. Another important seed dispersal agent is the parakeet...

time. Wind and animal dispersals are two major mechanisms involved in the dispersal of conifer seeds. Wind-born seed dispersal involves two processes...

is seed dispersal by ants, an ecologically significant ant–plant interaction with worldwide distribution. Most myrmecochorous plants produce seeds with...

megafauna that are now extinct. Diminished effectiveness and distance of seed dispersal by fruit-eating mammals inhabiting the same ecosystems today suggest...

seeds are viable for germination after the passage through the digestive tract, making the white-eared opossum an adequate vector for seed dispersal....

structures on seed cones whereas some species had colorful seed components were adapted to captivate the attention of birds, their main seed dispersal method...