Seed Dispersal in Páramo Plants: Epizoochorous and Hydrochorous Taxa

Autor:	Ferry Bouman, Inga M. Melcher, and A. M. Cleef
Přispěvatelé:	Paleoecology and Landscape Ecology (IBED, FNWI)
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Colonization Flora Diaspore (botany) Seed dispersal Ecology Plant Science General Medicine Biology PE&RC Paramo Herbarium Holarctic Taxon Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Botánica Botany Morphological adaptations Biological dispersal Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
Zdroj:	Plant Biology, 2, 40-52. Wiley-Blackwell Plant Biology 2 (2000) Plant Biology, 2, 34-39 Plant Biology, 2, 34-39. Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	1438-8677 1435-8603
DOI:	10.1055/s-2000-9146
Popis:	On the basis of a recent checklist of plant diversity in páramos, diaspores collected from herbaria were studied for adaptations to dispersal on animals and by water. This study shows that the páramo flora has a relatively high percentage of genera with morphological adaptations to epizoochorous and to hydrochorous diaspore dispersal. Genera with hooked and straight appendages are present throughout the páramo belt, while their number decreases in the higher páramo zones. About half of the hydrochorous genera and one-third of the epizoochorous ones can be found throughout all páramo zones. The contribution of holarctic epizoochorous genera to the páramo flora seems to be greater than that of austral-antarctic genera, whereas in hydrochorous genera it is the reverse.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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