 Seed Dispersal
"Seed Dispersal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The various physical methods which include wind, insects, animals, tension, and water, by which a plant scatters its seeds away from the parent plant.
| Descriptor ID |
D058614
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.154.767 G15.620.500 G15.808
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| Concept/Terms |
Seed Dispersal- Seed Dispersal
- Dispersal, Seed
- Dispersals, Seed
- Seed Dispersals
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Seed Dispersal" by people in Profiles.
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Sinnott-Armstrong MA, Donoghue MJ, Jetz WJ. Dispersers and environment drive global variation in fruit colour syndromes. Ecol Lett. 2021 Jul; 24(7):1387-1399.
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Middleton R, Sinnott-Armstrong M, Ogawa Y, Jacucci G, Moyroud E, Rudall PJ, Prychid C, Conejero M, Glover BJ, Donoghue MJ, Vignolini S. Viburnum tinus Fruits Use Lipids to Produce Metallic Blue Structural Color. Curr Biol. 2020 10 05; 30(19):3804-3810.e2.
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Whitehead SR, Bowers MD. Evidence for the adaptive significance of secondary compounds in vertebrate-dispersed fruits. Am Nat. 2013 Nov; 182(5):563-77.
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Kooyman RM, Zanne AE, Gallagher RV, Cornwell W, Rossetto M, O'Connor P, Parkes EA, Catterall CF, Laffan SW, Lusk CH. Effects of growth form and functional traits on response of woody plants to clearing and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest. Conserv Biol. 2013 Dec; 27(6):1468-77.
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McGraw JB, Lubbers AE, Van der Voort M, Mooney EH, Furedi MA, Souther S, Turner JB, Chandler J. Ecology and conservation of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) in a changing world. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2013 May; 1286:62-91.
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Kunz BK, Krell FT. Habitat differences in dung beetle assemblages in an African savanna-forest ecotone: implications for secondary seed dispersal. Integr Zool. 2011 Jun; 6(2):81-96.
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