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Patterns of Fruit Presentation and Seed Dispersal in Bird-Disseminated Woody Plants in the Eastern Deciduous Forest
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Presentation and dispersal of bird-disseminated fruits of woody plants in the eastern deciduous forest in terms of available dispersal agents is examined and a graphical model for disruptive selection in high- and low-quality fruits is presented.Abstract:
I have examined presentation and dispersal of bird-disseminated fruits of woody plants in the eastern deciduous forest in terms of available dispersal agents. Timing of fruit presentation and latit...read more
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Ecology of Seed Dispersal
Henry E Howe,Judith Smallwood +1 more
TL;DR: A general objective of this paper is to explore the degree to which dispersal process and mode are integrated and, in so doing, to catalyze their union.
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Phenological Patterns of Terrestrial Plants
TL;DR: Here it is reviewed the literature on phenological patterns of germination, flowering, and fruiting (including dispersal) of plants during the seasonal timing of life cycle events.
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A Study of Avian Frugivores, Bird-Dispersed Plants, and Their Interaction in Mediterranean Scrublands
TL;DR: It is suggested that actual coevolution involving a smaller set of bird and plant species may facilitate the persistence of noncoevolving (or very slowly coevolving) plant species, thus favoring the existence of a chronic "anachronism load" (with regard to dispersal) in the plant community.
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Dispersal of Small Seeds by Big Herbivores: Foliage is the Fruit
TL;DR: A view of the vegetative structure of a herb as the functional fruit ("bait" for the dispersal agent) confounds attempts at understanding leaf defensive chemistry and seed coat traits solely in the context of fitness-depressing herbivory or seed dormancy.
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Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests
TL;DR: Any event that increases the efficiency of the predators at eating seeds and seedlings of a given tree species may lead to a reduction in population density of the adults of that species and/or to increased distance between new adults and their parents.
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Theory of Feeding Strategies
TL;DR: Throughout, emphasis will be placed on strategic aspects of feeding rather than on what Holling (75) has called "tactics," and possible answers to the first problem may be given to the second problem.
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The Fire of Life
TL;DR: This book is a magnificent synthesis of scientific information on the basis of Lavoisier's important dictum that respiration is a kind of combustion and the repeated mention of Malthus and "writers with a hate complex".
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Principles of dispersal in higher plants.
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the evolution of Dispersal Organs in General, and discusses the role of dispersal strategy and the Biocoenosis in this process.