Plant species exhibit a variety of mechanisms of seed dispersal. The majority of seeds will be dispersed locally around the maternal parent in relation to the speed and direction of wind for ...

1. Frugivores shape plant communities via seed dispersal of fleshy-fruited plant species. However, the structural characteristics that frugivores impart to plant communities are little understood.

We examined the seed rain throughout a twelve month period in a lowland tropical forest in Cameroon, West Africa, 1996-97. Traps (0.5 m², n = 216) were erected throughout a 25 km² area in 24 randomly ...

A number of plants disperse their seeds in a rather artistic way: the seed capsules of the ice plant Delosperma nakurense, for instance, unfold lids over the seed compartments in the manner of a ...