Sentences with phrase «seed predation»

Some large mammals perform non-redundant seed dispersal services for very large - seeded plants [52,53] and their local extirpation may lead to an increase in rodent populations and seed predation [54].

In contrast, the later processes of plant regeneration such as seed predation, recruitment and herbivory, were found to be less consistently affected by humans.

The regeneration cycle of plants includes processes that are beneficial to plants, such as pollination, seed dispersal and the recruitment of seedlings, as well as detrimental processes, such as seed predation and herbivory.

Seed predation is an important ecological process that can affect the reproductive success of individual plants, the dynamics of plant populations, and the evolution of defensive dispersal mechanisms and plant morphological traits.

Seed predation includes any process inflicted on a plant's seeds by an animal that results in the inviability of the seed.

Alessio Mortelliti will study how seed predation may affect the successful dispersal of trees and shrubs and may limit their ability to expand into northern habitats in response to climate change.

Not exact matches

Many stone fruits» seeds, such as peaches, have larger seeds than apples, and their cyanide content (talk about a natural way to limit predation!)

Actually most nuts and all seeds, legumes and grains, some more than others are ALL not digestive friendly unless they are soaked and / or sprouted and obviously like grains, nuts and seeds as well las legumes, as you stated they are the reproductive material and as such all have a protective coating to avoid predation in their shell that are toxic upon consumption.

One under - explored mechanism I discuss in Food As Medicine is the inherent toxicity of ALL seeds — essentially — because seeds contain a variety of toxins to discourage predation.

All seeds (or more properly «fruits»), whether they be cereals, legumes, nuts, or what conventionally call «seeds», contain a host of natural plant chemicals that serve to discourage predation by animals.

If they did they'd become extinct, and so the evolutionary strategy that many plants, particularly cereal grains have taken to prevent predation is to evolve toxic compounds so that the predator of the seeds can't eat them, so that they can put their seeds in the soil where they're meant to be to grow a new plant and not in the gut of an animal to feed it.»