Food abundance is an important determinant in habitat and patch selection but food accessibility and detectability is less often considered. Foraging on more cryptic seeds may increase predation risk ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The prevalence of patchy structures in vegetation is a common feature in semi-arid ecosystems. Although the effect of patches on seed density ...

Never has the structure of seeds been revealed so powerfully than in Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy's Seeds: Time Capsules of Life (Papadakis, £35. What may appear at first glance to be a coffee ...

In plants, pollen- and seed-dispersal distributions are characteristically leptokurtic, with significant consequences for spatial genetic structure and nearest-neighbour mating. However, most studies ...

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 ...

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