Understanding the dispersal of wetland plants is important to the conservation of species in patchy or isolated wetland environments. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Flaherty et al. explored the potential for...
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Seed dispersal, the Ecuadorian dimension…
Rather belatedly in our look at animals and seed dispersal, we have our Darwin connection (after all, what biological item would be complete without mention of that venerable Victorian vegephile, Charles Darwin?). If...
Nigel Chaffey
Plant survival, on a wing and a prayer…*
As organisms that are mainly fixed in one place, plants have a problem if they are to extend their range and spread to new areas by production of a new generation. This fixedness of plants is also a barrier when it...
Seed dispersal that’s hard to swallow
The argan tree doesn't have to be annoying to really get your goat.
Fleshy peduncles are very tasty
The Chinese raisin tree is adapted to achieve mammal endozoochory, with viable seeds found in the faeces of bears and martens.
AJ Cann
