A mechanistic model for secondary seed dispersal by wind and its experimental validation

By Frank M. Schurr, W. Bond, Guy F. Midgley, Steven Higgins. 2005

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Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Earth-Surface Processes

1. Ran Nathan
2. M. Soons
3. Frank M. Schurr
4. J. Bullock
5. J. Cabral
6. Gil Bohrer
7. Gabriel G. Katul
8. H. S. Horn

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Peter B. Reich
2. S. Lavorel
3. Eric Garnier
4. C. Violle
5. M. Westoby
6. A. Moles
7. David D. Ackerly
8. I. Wright

In Plant Science

1. S. Lavorel
2. A. Moles
3. M. Westoby
4. Eric Garnier
5. Juli G. Pausas
6. U. Niinemets
7. Peter B. Reich
8. L. Sack

Citations in the corpus

• Plant fecundity and seed dispersal in spatially heterogeneous environments: models, mechanisms and estimation (2008, background): “halepensis), but can also be used for species with seeds dispersed by secondary wind dispersal (Schurr et al. 2005), animals (e.”
• New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “References on theory, significance and largedatasets: Skinner et al. (1989); Brewer et al.”
• A mechanistic simulation model of seed dispersal by animals (2008, background): “Journal compilation © 2008 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 96, 1011–1022 2003; Soons et al. 2004; Schurr et al. 2005).”
• Measuring plant dispersal: an introduction to field methods and experimental design (2006, background): “Ballistic dispersal is followed by seed-carrying by ants in many species (Ohkawara and Higashi 1994) and wind-dispersed seeds may undergo secondary dispersal after coming to rest, by being blown along smooth substrates such as snow or sand (Greene and Johnson 1997; Schurr et al. 2005).”
• Projecting climate change impacts on species distributions in megadiverse South African Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Regions: Opportunities and challenges (2009, background): “Generic mechanistic models of seed dispersal may provide a means of overcoming this problem (Schurr et al. 2005), and estimates of colonization ability derived from these models explain a substantial part of interspecific variation in current biogeographical distributions (Schurr et al. 2007).”
• Non‐random seed abscission, long‐distance wind dispersal and plant migration rates (2008, background): “A more likely explanation is that other processes, which are not included in the model, play a role in the field: for instance, secondary transport of seeds along the vegetation or the ground surface (Schurr et al. 2005).”
• Dispersal, demography and spatial population models for conservation and control management (2008, background): “Only a few attempts have been made to include transitions from one habitat type to another (Nathan et al., 2005; Nuttle and Haefner, 2005), or to include encounters with objects (Schurr et al., 2005).”
• Mechanistic models of seed dispersal by wind (2011, background): “We restrict the discussion to the primary dispersal by wind (plant to ground) and do not consider subsequent secondary movements (see, for example, Greene and Johnson 1997; Schurr et al. 2005; Thompson and Katul 2009).”
• Estimating demographic models for the range dynamics of plant species (2010, methodology): “We used kernels produced by Schurr et al. (2007), who parameterized mechanistic models for primary and secondary wind dispersal (Tackenberg, 2003; Schurr et al., 2005) with species-level measurements of eight dispersal traits.”
• Colonization and persistence ability explain the extent to which plant species fill their potential range (2007, methodology): “Colonization ability is estimated from data on local abundance (Rebelo, 2001), from the distribution of potential habitat (Midgley et al. , 2003) and from process-based seed dispersal models that are experimentally validated (Tackenberg, 2003; Schurr et al. , 2005 ).”
• TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011, background): “…biogeochemistry (Garnier et al., 2004; Cornwell et al., 2008), disturbance ecology (Wirth, 2005; Paula & Pausas, 2008), plant migration and invasion ecology (Schurr et al., 2005), conservation biology (Ozinga et al., 2009; Römermann et al., 2009) and plant geography (Swenson & Weiser, 2010).”