Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Think plants can’t move? You’re only half right ...
Species interactions, both mutualistic and antagonistic, are widely recognized as providing important ecosystem services. Fruit-eating animals influence plant recruitment by increasing germination ...
AN authoritative and comprehensive work on plant—dispersal-mainly, that is, the means by which fruits and seeds of flowering plants and spores of ferns, mosses, and other cryptogams are dispersed from ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. As the climate warms, many species will need to change locations to stay within a hospitable temperature range. Half of the world’s plants are ...
Evan Fricke receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Alejandro Ordonez receives funding from the Aarhus University Research Fund. Haldre Rogers receives funding from the US National ...
Case study 1. The common lizard (Zootoca vivipara, anciently Lacerta vivipara) : a model system for the study of the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal / Jean Clobert -- Case study 2.
Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 42, No. 7 (July 2015), pp. 1197-1209 (13 pages) Aim: Dispersal explains the disjunct distributions of many austral plant lineages. However, the role of Antarctica is ...