🦇🍇Stratified sampling enhances the understanding of bat–fruit networks in the southern Atlantic Forest
📷 Fernando Carvalho
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#EcologicalNetworks #Frugivory #PlantAnimalInteractions #SeedDispersal #VerticalSpace #Zoochory
Illustration of the interdisciplinary frameworks to study seed dispersal, integrating general spatial patterns and processes from the generalized gravity framework, movement ecology paradigm, and seed dispersal effectiveness framework. The text at the top left reads Generalized Gravity Framework; the text at the top right reads Seed Dispersal Effectiveness Framework. From the tree at the center, the text moving to the left reads: "Source Processes," "Relocation Processes," and "Destination Processes"; the text moving rightward from the tree reads: "Quantity," "Vector Quality," and "Seedscape Quality." The text moving downward from the tree reads "Predispersal & Departure," "Drivers of Movement," "Movement Ecology Paradigm," and "Deposition & Postdispersal." The illustration shows various animals carrying diaspores away from the source tree.
From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue 🌱
Animal-mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods (by @noellebeckman.bsky.social, @jmbecologist.bsky.social, et al)
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #zoochory #PlantEcology #SeedDispersal
Photo looking up into a leafy tree. Two woody fruits –looking like brown jars—hang from the branches. The lids and seeds inside have fallen away already.
Photo of hand holding a woody conical structure. It is the lid that has fallen out of the fruit. The lid is about 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter.
Bonus #Lecythidaceae post: The fruits of Lecythis pisonis open to release hard seeds. Secondarily dispersed is by animals. Photo 1 shows the empty capsules hanging from the tree. Photo 2 is the lid. #Lecythidaceae #zoochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: Tarciso Leão CCBY2 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Photo of clusters of oblong, brown fruits hanging from leafy branches. The fruits have been nibbled by animals to reveal a yellow interior.
Close-up photo of the fruit. A hand hold a single fruit with a portion of the flesh gnawed away to reveal the woody endocarp.
The fruits of Grias neuberthii, a tree from Colombia, Ecuador & Peru, are drupes that are sometimes consumed by humans (mostly as famine food). Wild animals (which ones?) disperse the seeds. #Lecythidaceae #zoochory #dispersal #TropicalBotany 📷: Attila Oláh CCBY4 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
New NIOO publication: Float, fly, then sink: #wetland plant #seed buoyancy is lost after internal #dispersal by #waterbirds. #diplochory #hydrochory #endozoochory #biodiversity #zoochory #simulateddigestion
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05561-y
New NIOO publication: Evidence that long‐distance dispersal of aquatic #invertebrates by #ducks increases with #propagule size, by @EllenvanDonk and others. #dispersalcurve #gutpassage #hatching #waterbird #zoochory #zooplankton
https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14146
Mitochondrial markers suggest the freshwater gastropod, Planorbella trivolvis, is dispersed by waterfowl along the Pacific flyway #zoochory @CoDisperse @chavanleeuwen @DucksUnlimited @AdamLovasKiss
Fish Eggs Spread Far and Wide by Waterfowl, interview on @byuradio about our #dispersal papers @PNASNews @ESAEcology @ebdonana @CSICdivulga @UoM_EES @FBMH_UoM @greenlab @DiversityAnimal @GiliandroGSilva @AdamLovasKiss @CoDisperse #carp #killifish #zoochory
Carp egg on a water scorpion that could fly between lakes #dispersal #zoochory
New free ebook on #dispersal by animal vectors with editors from @ebdonana @CSIC and @niooknaw #zoochory @FrontEcolEvol @UoM_EES @MMUEcolEnv @CSICdivulga @CSICAndalExtrem @CoDisperse @AdamLovasKiss @AnnaTraveset @ajgreen_lab @ErikKleyheeg @Neil_Coughlan_
Our Editorial is out for special issue on Animal-Mediated #Dispersal in Understudied Systems, with 14 papers @FrontEcolEvol @chavanleeuwen @ebdonana @CSIC @ajgreen_lab @niooknaw @CoDisperse @UoM_EES @MMUEcolEnv #dispersal #zoochory
Is the alien apple snail spreading by waterbirds? Could be the case in the #everglades #Pomacea @BelinGallardo @AMacedaVeiga #invasivespecies #dispersal #zoochory
Great to see so much interest in our virtual issue on Animal-Mediated #Dispersal in Understudied Systems, something for everyone interested in #zoochory @FrontEcolEvol @CoDisperse @chavanleeuwen @ebdonana @csic @ajgreen_lab
Birds spread a pathogenic fungus that infects the crowns of trees and shrubs in the Neotropics, but is good for nest-building. A new dispersal mutualism? #zoochory
Crayfish invasion into ricefields facilitates secondary #dispersal of plants and invertebrates by lesser black-backed gulls #procambarus #larus #doñana #Crawfish #invasivespecies #WEEDS #zoochory @CoDisperse @mesquitajoanes @AdamLovasKiss @ebdonana
Field expt suggests mallards disperse Chara vulgaris into mesocosms #zoochory #charophyta @CoDisperse @AdamLovasKiss
Great PhD thesis on seed #dispersal and movement ecology of mallards in Netherlands
#ducks #zoochory #tracking
Rare wetland plants are dispersed by waterbirds as well as common ones #astralagus #fabaceae #zoochory #dispersal
gulls major vectors of #dispersal of insects and crustaceans stuck on their feathers
#zoochory #Trichocorixa