Until the 1990s, herbivory on aquatic vascular plants was considered to be of minor
importance, and the predominant view was that freshwater and marine macrophytes did not …

The importance of dispersal rates and distances has long been appreciated by ecologists
and evolutionary biologists. An emerging field of research is revealing how temporal …

The extent to which species can balance out the loss of suitable habitats due to climate
warming by shifting their ranges is an area of controversy. Here, we assess whether highly …

Because common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L., henceforth Ambrosia) has negative
effects on human health, it is a common focus for management, which would benefit from a …

Conceptual gaps and imprecise terms and definitions may obscure the breadth of plant–
animal dispersal relationships involved in directed dispersal. The term 'directed'indicates …

Background Studying population genetic structure and gene flow of plant populations and
their influencing factors is of particular significance in the field of conservation biology …

Following a disturbance, dispersal shapes community composition as well as ecosystem
structure and function. For fungi, dispersal is often wind or mammal facilitated, but it is …

Large animals provide crucial seed dispersal services, yet face continued threats and are
susceptible to changes in landscape composition and configuration. Thus, there is a …

The difficulty of integrating multiple theories, data and methods has slowed progress
towards making unified inferences of ecological change generalizable across large spatial …

Seed bank (henceforth referred to as SB) refers to viable seed which is present on or in soil
and associated with litter/humus. Under different land use/land cover systems and climatic …