Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe
Abstract Plant dispersal is crucial to maintaining plant community dynamics, especially in the current context of rapid environmental changes such as global warming and landscape fragmentation. We seized the opportunity to carry out a pilot study on endozoochorous dispersal by the endangered Pyrenea...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/mammalia-2015-0092 2024-05-12T08:12:14+00:00 Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe Lalleroni, Aurélie Quenette, Pierre-Yves Daufresne, Tanguy Pellerin, Maryline Baltzinger, Christophe 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2015-0092 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.2017.81.issue-1/mammalia-2015-0092/mammalia-2015-0092.xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2015-0092/pdf unknown Walter de Gruyter GmbH Mammalia volume 81, issue 1, page 1-9 ISSN 1864-1547 0025-1461 Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2017 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2015-0092 2024-04-18T06:55:38Z Abstract Plant dispersal is crucial to maintaining plant community dynamics, especially in the current context of rapid environmental changes such as global warming and landscape fragmentation. We seized the opportunity to carry out a pilot study on endozoochorous dispersal by the endangered Pyrenean brown bear. We based our study on faeces collected by the Brown Bear Network and location data from three bears fitted with GPS collars and translocated from Slovenia to the Pyrenees in 2006. We studied 39 faecal samples, 25 of which contained seeds from two to three different taxa. We identified a total of 47 plant taxa, 30 to the genus level and 21 to the species level. The seeds from plants bearing fleshy fruits: Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos De Gruyter Mammalia 81 1 1 9 |
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Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Lalleroni, Aurélie Quenette, Pierre-Yves Daufresne, Tanguy Pellerin, Maryline Baltzinger, Christophe Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe |
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Abstract Plant dispersal is crucial to maintaining plant community dynamics, especially in the current context of rapid environmental changes such as global warming and landscape fragmentation. We seized the opportunity to carry out a pilot study on endozoochorous dispersal by the endangered Pyrenean brown bear. We based our study on faeces collected by the Brown Bear Network and location data from three bears fitted with GPS collars and translocated from Slovenia to the Pyrenees in 2006. We studied 39 faecal samples, 25 of which contained seeds from two to three different taxa. We identified a total of 47 plant taxa, 30 to the genus level and 21 to the species level. The seeds from plants bearing fleshy fruits: |
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Lalleroni, Aurélie Quenette, Pierre-Yves Daufresne, Tanguy Pellerin, Maryline Baltzinger, Christophe |
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Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe |
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Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe |
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Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe |
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Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe |
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Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe |
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exploring the potential of brown bear (ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in south-western europe |
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