Seed Dispersal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Between-site differences in the scale of dispersal and gene flow in red oak. 
  • Colour and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs. 
  • Conflicting selection in the course of adaptive diversification: the interplay between mutualism and intraspecific competition. 
  • Convergent evolution of a complex fruit structure in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae). 
  • Diversification and the evolution of dispersal ability in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae). 
  • Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests. 
  • Evolution of sexual systems, dispersal strategies and habitat selection in the liverwort genus Radula. 
  • Frugivores and the evolution of fruit colour. 
  • Implications of lemuriform extinctions for the Malagasy flora. 
  • It's Not Easy Being Blue: Are There Olfactory and Visual Trade-Offs in Plant Signalling? 
  • Natural experiment demonstrates that bird loss leads to cessation of dispersal of native seeds from intact to degraded forests. 
  • Potential arms race in the coevolution of primates and angiosperms: brazzein sweet proteins and gorilla taste receptors. 
  • Roles of seed and establishment limitation in determining patterns of afrotropical tree recruitment. 
  • Seed limitation in an Amazonian floodplain forest. 
  • Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments. 
  • The founding of Mauritian endemic coffee trees by a synchronous long-distance dispersal event. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy