[PDF] Top 20 Endozoochorous seed dispersal of plant species in semi-steppe rangelands

... animal species such as: cattle, horses and donkeys (Simao Neto et ...the seed, but in the case of sheep and goats, is high chewing and damage to seeds and finally, there is an inverse relationship between ... See full document

... different plant communities: In shrublands, treatments were fire+light grazing, fire+moderate ...in plant communities, unburned areas in close proximity to each treatment were ...each plant ... See full document

... few species in- cluding ...new species into cleared microsites and inabil- ity of other local species to incorporate seeds into the ...Aristida species enable epichorous and anemochorous ... See full document

... product suggest that it will simplify weed control in spring wheat, reduce herbicide injury to wheat, improve control of current herbicide-resistant weed biotypes, eliminate off-type wheat within a given wheat crop, and ... See full document

... These observations suggest a mathematical model for the whole valve based on three elastic layers, each with a different reference geometry, attached together so that, in the flat state, the outer layer is in tension and ... See full document

... larger seed mass conferring greater desiccation tolerance appears to play out across co- occurring species, to the extent that, as a group, desiccation intolerant species have larger mean seed ... See full document

... Survival of newly recruited seedlings also depends on different microclimatic variables and showed better survival in the two stands, provided they withstand the marked seasonal fluctuation in soil moisture and ... See full document

... naturalised species have reached their potential range at even a provincial scale (Williams and Cameron, in ...Local dispersal of some fleshy-fruited species seems particularly slow ...distance ... See full document

... seeding. Endozoochorous is described as the dispersal of seeds by animals through ingestion and is an established folk practice for establishing clover in perennial ...weed species have seeds that ... See full document

... Pre-dispersal seed predation can have strong ecological consequences by limiting seed production and plant ...impact plant abundance, distribution and the assemblage of plant ... See full document

... bee species on the Steppe were confi rmed (50 ...the Steppe over the past 40 ...recorded species is remarkable and cannot be compensated with fi rstly recorded species (61 fi rst records + ... See full document

... physicochemical properties for lakes with low inbound propagule pressure.. Influence of fish species related to Bythotrephes presence. Upward. facing arrows indicate positive relationshi[r] ... See full document

... their species and ecological diversity in various terrestrial habitats (Wise, 1993; Cardoso et ...Many species of epigeic spiders are common over a wide area, but remain closely associated with their ... See full document

... Given this, there are a number of seed and seedling recruitment scenarios for any plant species deposited in these sites: i if seed and seedling mortality is density dependent, and total[r] ... See full document

... of seed rain from any given x co-ordinate represents the dispersal kernel for seeds produced by adult plants at that ...the dispersal kernel of a recently matured plant very close to the range ... See full document

... Only one species was found eating fruits of E. acida in- side the Reserve, the brush-tailed rodent Octodon degus. To test for fruit consumption under captivity conditions, individuals of O. degus (Fig. 3) were ... See full document

... 17.5% of the variation was explained by axis 2 (Eigenvalue: 0.529). Saturation moisture in the second layer and ECe in both layers were represented by the second axis. ECe in the second layer had the highest correlation ... See full document

... of plant establishment in an open (unvegetated) site (Burrows, 1990) ...the dispersal ability of a species and the local ecological conditions, which act as filters on plant establishment, ... See full document

... soil seed banks and seedling banks, thus focusing on storage effects of repro- ductive potentials (Teketay and Granström 1995, ...Soil seed banks have little potential as a source of tree regeneration in ... See full document

... Lokobe Forest is classified as East Malagasy primary lowland rain forest (Sambirano domain) (White, 1983). Appendix I gives a comprehensive list of plant species recorded in Lokobe Reserve during the study. ... See full document