Gut travellers: internal dispersal of aquatic organisms by waterfowl

By Casper H. A. Leeuwen, G. Velde, J. M. Groenendael, M. Klaassen. 2012

151 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. A. Green
2. A. Brochet
3. J. Figuerola
4. M. Soons
5. M. Klaassen
6. Erik Kleyheeg
7. Graeme Cumming
8. N. Miranda

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. A. Green
2. A. Brochet
3. M. Soons
4. J. Figuerola
5. M. Klaassen
6. Erik Kleyheeg
7. Graeme Cumming
8. N. Miranda

Citations in the corpus

• Plant dispersal syndromes are unreliable, especially for predicting zoochory and long‐distance dispersal (2021, background): “The avian digestive system is optimized for calorie uptake per unit time rather than per unit of ingested food, so full digestion of seeds does not generally occur (van Leeuwen et al. 2012).”
• The role of waterbirds in the dispersal of aquatic alien and invasive species (2015, background): “More generally, alien aquatic snails demonstrate many necessary prerequisites for successful endo- and ectozoochory (van Leeuwen & van der Velde, 2012; van Leeuwen et al., 2012b).”
• How did this snail get here? Several dispersal vectors inferred for an aquatic invasive species (2013, background): “Many aquatic snails have the necessary prerequisites for successful external transport by birds (Van Leeuwen & Van der Velde, 2012).”
• Direct long‐distance dispersal shapes a New World amphitropical disjunction in the dispersal‐limited dung moss Tetraplodon (Bryopsida: Splachnaceae) (2014, background): “These studies suggest that bryophytes may be resistant to ingestion, although studies on seed plants have shown that resistance varies according to both vector and plant (Traveset et al., 2001) and that viability decreases in general with increasing time inside a bird (van Leeuwen et al., 2012).”
• Seed dispersal by dabbling ducks: an overlooked dispersal pathway for a broad spectrum of plant species (2016, background): “The digestive system of waterbirds, including dabbling ducks, is optimized for calorie uptake per unit time rather than per unit of ingested food, so for most of the time full digestion does not occur (Van Leeuwen et al. 2012).”