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Seed Dispersal

Known as: Seed Dispersals, Dispersals, Seed, Dispersal, Seed 
The various physical methods which include wind, insects, animals, tension, and water, by which a plant scatters its seeds away from the parent plant… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Differential contribution of frugivores to complex seed dispersal patterns
Frugivores are highly variable in their contribution to fruit removal in plant populations. However, data are lacking on species… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Role of Wheat Awns in the Seed Dispersal Unit
The dispersal unit of wild wheat bears two pronounced awns that balance the unit as it falls. We discovered that the awns are… Expand
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Seed Dispersal and Spatial Pattern in Tropical Trees
Theories of tropical tree diversity emphasize dispersal limitation as a potential mechanism for separating species in space and… Expand
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Review
2005
Review
2005
Pollen and seed dispersal among dispersed plants.
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  • Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical…
  • 2005
    • Corpus ID: 12804660
The ecological significance of spacing among plants in contributing to the maintenance of species richness, particularly in… Expand
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Effects of Landscape Corridors on Seed Dispersal by Birds
Habitat fragmentation threatens biodiversity by disrupting dispersal. The mechanisms and consequences of this disruption are… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Fruit characters as a basis of fruit choice and seed dispersal in a tropical forest vertebrate community
SummaryInteractions between a large community of vertebrate frugivore-granivores (including 7 species of large canopy birds, 19… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Seed mass and mast seeding enhance dispersal by a neotropical scatter-hoarding rodent
Many tree species that depend on scatter-hoarding animals for seed dispersal produce massive crops of large seeds at irregular… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
SHATTERPROOF MADS-box genes control seed dispersal in Arabidopsis
The fruit, which mediates the maturation and dispersal of seeds, is a complex structure unique to flowering plants. Seed… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Directed seed dispersal by bellbirds in a tropical cloud forest.
A fundamental goal of plant population ecology is to understand the consequences for plant fitness of seed dispersal by animals… Expand
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Genetics and Biochemistry of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis.
A fuel injector which has check valve that is hydraulically controlled by a control fluid. A volume of fuel is pressurized within… Expand
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