Waterbirds play a pivotal role in the dispersal of plant seeds, thereby influencing the distribution, genetic connectivity, and composition of ecosystems across diverse habitats. Their dual seed ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Society has recently become enthralled with bees and the amazing service they provide spreading pollen around and helping to sustain plant ...

image: A study conducted at the University of São Paulo and published in Science correlates birds and plants in seed dispersal networks (Thraupis sayaca) view more More than 70% of plant species that ...

Hornbills disperse more than 90% of the seeds of the fruits they consume, and the larger-bodied great hornbills and wreathed hornbills can disperse seeds more than 10 kilometres away from the parent ...

Researchers have developed a new tool to sequence chloroplast DNA from hundreds of plants at once, to learn more about how plant populations move. This tool, CallHap, makes it cheaper and easier to ...

By dropping these model seeds and filming their descent with high-speed cameras, they demonstrated that whirling, single-winged seeds were the most effective at aerial dispersal. Symmetric, ...

Don't be disappointed if all the fluffy seeds of a dandelion don't fly away with a single blow. The gust of wind from your lungs may be strong, but the dandelion's natural desire to control how its ...

Summer seems to be closing down all too quickly. Bird song is past, replaced by the chips and squeaks of juvenile birds scuttling in the underbrush. Even the late-hatching mallard ducklings have their ...

Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize. New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds. It's long been ...

Jan. 11 (UPI) --On Oahu, the third largest of the Hawaiian islands, most of the airborne seed dispersal is now being carried out by non-native birds, according to a new study published Monday in the ...

Whirling seeds are produced by many plants today, such as maples, but the first to try them were the conifers 270 million years ago. Fossils reveal that those early conifers had winged seeds of ...