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Dispersal mode, seed shadows, and colonization patterns

  • Part 4: Consequences of seed dispersal
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This review assesses the state of our knowledge about comparative seed shadows. Using data presently available in the literature, I compare the slopes (on a log-linear scale) of seed shadows for plants with different morphologically characterized modes of dispersal. The seeds of many species have no evident morphological adaptation for dispersal and seem to achieve only short-distance dispersal. Seed shadows for herbaceous species with devices for wind have flatter slopes and more distant modes and maxima than those of ballists, which in turn exceed those with no special devices. Seed shadows for wind-dispersed trees and shrubs had similar or steeper slopes than those for vertebrate-dispersed species in this sample. Species with poor mechanisms for dispersal in space only sometimes had the capacity for better dispersal in time (dormancy). Although some species exhibited seed shadows sufficiently steep to be predicted to colonize new-habitat in a ‘front’ or phalanx pattern, actual colonization patterns must reflect many other factors.

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Willson, M.F. Dispersal mode, seed shadows, and colonization patterns. Vegetatio 107, 261–280 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052229

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