Long-Distance Dispersal of Plants

By Ran Nathan. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest (2008, background): “Technical advances make it ever easier to document spatial and temporal patterns of animal movement (Nathan 2006).”
Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential (2008, background): “Both polygenic inheritance and genes of major effect are important to population viability and long-term evolutionary persistence but are generally ignored by collection protocols.”
How do islands become green (2015, background): “The dispersal of seeds and spores, and particularly long-distance dispersal (LDD), has been long identified as the key process by which plants can occupy new territories and is critical for the colonization of oceanic islands (Nathan, 2006; Traveset et al., 2014).”
Water dispersal as an additional pathway to invasions by the primarily wind-dispersed tree Ailanthus altissima (2008, background): “12, 12165 Berlin, Germany e-mail: kowarik@tu-berlin.de indicated by seed morphology often move dispersal units over long distances (Higgins et al. 2003; Nathan 2006).”
Potential of remote sensing to predict species invasions (2015, background): “Aside from potential global changes, species range shifts might be induced by direct anthropogenic causes, such as habitat destruction, or simply by assisted long distance dispersal (Nathan, 2006).”
Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change? (2012, background): “Therefore, rare long-distance dispersal events (Nathan 2006) are likely to be especially critical for the persistence of soil specialists relative to soil generalists.”
The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years? (2013, background): “Such anomalous diffusion behaviours have been studied both in plants and animals (Nathan 2006; Edwards et al. 2007), and they are of direct relevance in the study of how species respond to global change and thus to determine the threshold for population and metapopulation extinctions .”
Barriers or corridors? The overlooked role of unpaved roads in endozoochorous seed dispersal (2013, background): “Such longdistance seed dispersal events usually imply plant fitness advantages (Levin et al. 2003; Nathan 2006).”
Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years (2017, background): “LDD events are more frequent over shorter distances, but exceptional chance events over large distances do occur (Nathan, 2006).”
Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review. (2010, background): “In addition, although LDD is important for plant dynamics, contributing to population spread, subpopulation persistence, recolonization and gene flow (e.g. Bohrer et al., 2005; Nathan, 2006; Levey et al., 2008), we seldom know how important it is.”
Recruitment limitation of forest communities in a degraded Mediterranean landscape (2009, background): “Nevertheless, in both study years, we found dispersed A. granatense seeds in the shrubland, where parents were absent, indicating the existence of longdistance dispersal events for this species, which are vital for forest expansion (Nathan 2006).”
Large frugivorous birds facilitate functional connectivity of fragmented landscapes (2014, background): “In addition, gene flow among fragmented populations is important to allow trees to adapt to changing environmental conditions (Cain, Milligan & Strand 2000; Nathan 2006).”
Seed dispersal by a frugivorous marsupial shapes the spatial scale of a mistletoe population (2009, background): “2002; Purves & Dushoff 2005), and the geographical range of a species (Nathan 2006).”
Small seed size increases the potential for dispersal of wetland plants by ducks (2008, background): “In a recent review, Nathan (2006) specifically called for the development of mechanistic models of LDD by animals to better understand LDD of plants.”