New paper out: Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding of endozoochory by simulating avian digestion Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC CoDisperse GreenLab Wiley Ecology & Evolution Ecography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

Our experimental #dispersal study simulates duck gut passage for #seeds of 48 wetland plants along a moisture gradient, controlling for #phylogeny Ecography Wiley Ecology & Evolution Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC AIL Limnología CoDisperse Society of Wetland Scientists Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) BES Aquatic Ecology (BESAG) doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

🌱Special Issue Call for Papers🌱

#AppsPlantSci invites submissions for 'Quantifying plant and fungal dispersal: New methods from multiple disciplines' led by Dr. Noelle G. Beckman Sally Chambers Irene Cobo-Simón & Lauren Sullivan

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Join me on Monday 9:30am EST at William Hall or on Zoom (DM for password) to learn about my Ph.D. work conducted over the last years at La Selva Biological Station 🇨🇷Tropical Studies, focusing on how fruit secondary metabolites affect bat physiology and foraging behavior 🧪🦇🌿

How many seeds can animals predate before negatively affecting the plants they disperse?

It was fun exploring the dual role of hawfinches for a tree population🐦🌿ConsEcol Nina Farwig

Read more Basic and Applied Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.baae…

Congrats to John Draper for getting this last chapter of his dissertation published on #Coyotes as seed dispersers (all the way to changing species distribution & carbon storage on the landscape). This paper was fun to work on with great co-authors! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

Individual body mass and sex of a frugivorous bird affect the quality of seed dispersal - Campagnoli - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Excited to shar our just published work about #seeddispersal combined with #GPStagged geese movement data in Sweden 🦆🌱

See the link below to know the whole story :)

Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC CoDisperse BES Invasion Science Andy J. Green

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New Paper: Greylag #geese connect agricultural and natural habitats via direct summer flights, dispersing 41 plant species (9 weeds). Impact of weed dispersal between crop types needs research Seed Science Society CoDisperse Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester BTO
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🌱 10k+ #seeddispersal studies in ~50 yrs! 📚 In their latest review, Dr. Noelle G. Beckman & Lauren Sullivan explore vital discoveries, unify theories, and spark future research ideas. Cheers to the authors for this comprehensive summary!🐦🍒🌳
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By 2050, climate change is expected to cause major seed dispersal disruption due to 60% decline in breeding range of pink-footed geese CoDisperse Evan Fricke Haldre Anna Traveset WWT Conservation WWT Martin Mere BES Climate Change Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET) Wetlands International Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

This is a short piece by Elisa Hussain, about the work on tropical seeds we are starting at Smithsonian Panama funded by U.S. National Science Foundation
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Wonderful collaboration w/ Lindsay A. McCulloch Jim Dalling Dr. Noelle G. Beckman Carolina Sarmiento, Betsy Arnold, & Adam Davis.

Wonderful gathering of seed dispersal researchers ATBC in Coimbatore, India today. The future of seed dispersal research is in good hands with this stellar group of early career biologists! CoDisperse

We found that a critical ecological function, ant-mediated seed dispersal, was lower and more variable in forests with a history of agricultural clearing. We found damage by antagonists (invasive slugs) was disrupting dispersal and higher in these forests.

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Finally, after years searching, I’ve found my own sea bean on St. Mary’s! 😃 A ‘sea heart’ - the seed of the monkey-ladder (Entada gigas), a tropical woody vine of Central American rainforests. Extreme seed dispersal at play! 🌊

A treasured find 🤎🙌

#PWC2023 #AlternativeFind

Meet the forester and rewilder..
(by seed dispersal)

A #Fruit_Bat feasting on #custard_apple , in my backyard.

#IndiWild #IndiAves
#Wild life #Nature
#365dayswild #bats
#Flying_fox #Ecology #Environment #trees #forest #Jungle #Wild #ThePhotoHour #Nature Photography

Ep 419 is here & its about ant seed dispersal AKA myrmecochory
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We revisit a conversation with Dr. Robert Warren in about ant seed dispersal and learn how some invasive ants might impact wildflower diversity.
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Many years ago I published this experimental study of seed dispersal, which has been well-cited

While planning it, so many people told me the study would not work & I was being too ambitious

I’ve kept that ‘victory’ to inspire me over the years link.springer.com/article/10.100…

'Natural colonisation' & 'passive rewilding' are increasingly popular in the UK, but depend on seed dispersal

And we tend to think very little about how abundance of seed dispersers can limit their success

Nature recovery must involve recovery of ecosystem processes