Dispersal of individuals far from progenitors is a key life cycle process which entails benefits and costs that might result in adaptations and eventually promote speciation. However, owing to the difficulty to estimate ...

True myrmecochory involves the dispersal of elaiosome-bearing seeds by ants. Between the guild of ants that are attracted to these seeds, only a few of them will act as effective dispersers, that is, transporting the seeds ...

Dispersal abilities of invading species emerge from the interaction between the species and some features of the target community. Ligustrum lucidum is a tree species invading different ecosystems. Major spatial patterns ...

Within a metacommunity, both environmental and spatial processes regulate variation in local community structure. The strength of these processes may vary depending on species traits (e.g., dispersal mode) or the characteristics ...

Plant invasion success is influenced by several driving factors such as the dispersal, environmental conditions and the species characteristics. In wind dispersed plants, the dispersal traits and the altitude are key for ...

1. Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems (e.g. lentic versus lotic versus marine) differ ...

Sieve analysis studies depend on obtaining suspensions of fully-dispersed and stable samples to facilitate the quantification of the fractions of soil aggregates. The aim of this study was to compare the percentage of ...