Fleshy bracts elicit avian endozoochory in a dry‐fruited non‐photosynthetic plant
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Peduncles elicit large-mammal endozoochory in a dry-fruited plant.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plants have evolved a variety of seed dispersal mechanisms to overcome lack of mobility. Many species embed seeds in fleshy pulp to elicit endozoochory, i.e. disseminating seed through the animal gut. In contrast to well-studied fleshy fruited plants, dry-fruited plants may exploit this dispersal mutualism by producing fleshy appendages as a nutritional reward to entice anim...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0012-9623,2327-6096
DOI: 10.1002/bes2.1771