Long-distance seed dispersal underpins gene flow, population dynamics and range shifts in plant communities worldwide. Mechanisms include wind‐driven transport, animal‐mediated movement, waterborne ...

Combining topographic preferences of endangered high-elevation Puya raimondii rosettes, seed dispersal distances, and future climate scenarios, we project habitat availability in the year 2100 in the ...

Biologists have long thought that seed traits, such as the presence of wings, are the key to predicting in what way, and how ...

From a plant’s point of view, birds are a mixed blessing. While some birds crush and destroy a plant’s flowers and seeds as they eat them (antagonism), others are very useful in dispersing plant seeds ...

Birds play a larger role in the dispersal of wild cotton than previously assumed. This is shown by a study in the journal Oikos, carried out in southern Africa. Researchers discovered that birds ...