Seed DispersalDavid Ronald Murray The aerial motion of seeds, fruits, spores and pollen; Seed dispersal by water; Seed dispersal syndromes in Australian Acacia; Seed dispersal by fruit-eating birds and mammals; Rodents as seed consumers and dispersers; Seed dispersal in relation to fire; Evolution of seed dispersal syndromes according to the fossil record. |
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Acacia species acorns adaptations Aerial aerodynamic aerodynamic force angiosperms animals ants aril Aust Australia Australian Acacia bats bird-dispersed birds Burrows caches canopy Carlquist characteristics clumps cones cycads density diaspore dispersal agents dispersal of seeds dispersal syndromes drag drupes Ecol Ecology effect of rodents elaiosome established estimates example fate diagram fire Fleming flora flow foraging forest frugivores fruit-eating birds germination granivorous gymnosperms habitats harvest Heithaus herbivores Herrera heteromyid insects Islands Janzen larderhoards large seeds legumes lipid mammals mass microphylla mm³ motion Neotropics occur Oecologia oilbird parent plant particles patterns plant species populations post-fire probably pulp range Reichman relative release reproductive Reynolds numbers rodents rotation sarcotesta scatterhoards sclerotesta seasonal seed and seedling seed coats seed consumers seed dispersal seed ferns seedlings seeds and fruits selective shrubs Smallwood soil squirrels studies survival Table taxa trajectory trees tropical Vande Kerckhove vegetation velocity Virola Whelan wind wing