Half of the world's plants need animals to spread their seeds. When those animals are gone, plants won't be able to migrate in order to survive in a changing climate.

Quirks and Quarks 54:01 Seed dispersal and climate change, the Local Bubble, pint-sized war-horses, seeing memories form in an animal and a vaccine mixing study that didn’t quite happen.

Declines in bird and mammal species are making plant seed dispersal more difficult, which means plants can’t adapt as effectively to climate change By Adam Vaughan 13 January 2022 ...

Ant-mediated seed dispersal, or myrmecochory, represents a sophisticated mutualism between a wide range of flowering plants and ants. In this interaction, plants produce nutrient‐rich elaiosomes ...

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Despite this, seed dispersal hasn’t received much attention, she says. “We don’t know what disperses the seeds of most plants in the world.” ...

New seed fossil sheds light on wind dispersal in plants Researchers have discovered a new plant seed fossil, Alasemenia, one of the earliest known examples of a winged seed Date: October 8, 2024 ...

Adrian A. Barnett, Sarah A. Boyle, Liliam P. Pinto, Waldete C. Lourenço, Thais Almeida, Welma Sousa Silva, Beatriz Ronchi-Teles, Bruna M. Bezerra, Caroline Ross, Ann MacLarnon, Wilson R. Spironello, ...

With the aid of the data on flight movements and seed excretion periods, the researchers were able to calculate the potential of an entire colony to disseminate seeds over long distances and to ...

André de C. Guaraldo, Bruna de O. Boeni, Marco A. Pizo, Specialized Seed Dispersal in Epiphytic Cacti and Convergence with Mistletoes, Biotropica, Vol. 45, No. 4 ...