Dispersal ecology: where have all the seeds gone?
How effective are different animals at dispersing seeds? A new study has traced seeds sampled in faeces to their mother of origin and concluded that carnivorous mammals can be better dispersers than birds.
Pannell
John R
JR
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. john.pannell@plants.ox.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology; D005243:Feces; D008322:Mammals / Q000502:physiology; D027861:Prunus / Q000196:embryology / Q000502:physiology; D012098:Reproduction; D012639:Seeds