This chapter aims to review the main causes leading to dispersal, with an emphasis on
proximate factors. I will consider causality in dispersal as any factor that explains variation …

Steve Goosem has a background in protected area management and in botanical, soil and
wildlife ecological research. His first experience with rainforest restoration involved flood …

A minuscule fraction of the Earth's paleobiological diversity is preserved in the geological
record as fossils. What plant remnants have withstood taphonomic filtering, fragmentation …

We update the global assessment of seed dispersal by ants and test the hypothesis that the
body size of seed‐dispersing ant species varies with latitude in the same way as dispersal …

The putative benefits to seeds in myrmecochory (ant‐mediated seed dispersal) are often
cast in a reward context. However, microbes have been mostly overlooked as seed mortality …

New Caledonia is a remote archipelago of the South-West Pacific, whose flora is rich,
distinctive, and disharmonic. The interest of botanists has long been attracted by the spatio …

Knowledge about seed dispersal is required to explain problems in ecology,
phylogeography, and conservation biology. Even though seed dispersal is a fundamental …

1. Seed manipulation by ants can play a key role in seed germination through two main
behaviours: elaiosome detachment and seed scarification. Despite the fact that these …

Seed dispersal by ants is common in arid lands. The seeds of myrmecochorous plants bears
an elaiosome, an appendage that acts as a reward for ants. Once an ant identifies an …

Abstract Four upper Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous lacustrine Lagerstätten in China
and Australia (the Daohugou, Talbragar, Jehol, and Koonwarra biotas) offer glimpses into …