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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Modelling seed dispersal by animals development and application of a mechanistic simulation model for zoochorous seed dispersal

Will, Heidrun January 1900 (has links)
Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2008
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The contribution of sheep zoochory to the conservation and restoration of target plant communities in isolated sand ecosystems

Wessels, Saskia Cornelie. Unknown Date (has links) (PDF)
Darmstadt, Techn. University, Diss., 2008. / Erscheinungsjahr an der Haupttitelstelle: 2007.
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Sukcese na lokalitách suchých travníků po obnově pastvy / Succession after reintroduction of grazing in dry grasslands

Fulínová, Martina January 2010 (has links)
Grazing management is very popular nowadays and number of sites with grazing animals with the aim of restoring the sites is steadily growing. All the effects of grazing on grazed grasslands are not elucidated yet. This thesis focused mainly on the contribution of zoochory to restoration of species rich grasslands on stands cleared from Robinia pseudoacacia and stands cleared from Prunus spinosa brushwood. For the purpose of monitoring changes in vegetation, permanent plots have been established. In order to identify sources of new species occurring in permanent plots, inventory of species growing in neighbourhood of the permanent plots has been done, samples of soil seed bank, sheep buttons and seeds from sheep wool have been germinated in a greenhouse. Monitoring of permanent plots showed reduced regrowth of R. pseudoacacia and P. spinosa. We have also found that greater changes in species composition occurred in more degraded stands than in stands better-preserved. Germinating experiments proved soil seed bank being mainly the image of aboveground vegetation with minor importance to restoration of species rich grasslands. On the other hand sheep seem to be of great use for dispersal of seeds both by epizoochory and endozoochory when walking between different stands. This finding is of great importance for...
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Influence de la dispersion endozoochore sur la composition des communautés végétales : une approche fonctionnelle basée sur trois ongulés sauvages / Influence of endozoochorous dispersal on the composition of plant communities : a functional approach based on three wild ungulates

Picard, Mélanie 16 December 2014 (has links)
La dispersion est un processus clé dans les dynamiques de populations. Chez les organismes à dispersion passive, dont les plantes, la dispersion de la banque de graines fait appel à un vecteur biotique ou abiotique. En particulier, la zoochorie influence les patrons spatiaux de distribution et de diversité des plantes à travers une interaction entre les traits écologiques du vecteur animal et de la plante transportée. Ma thèse vise à étudier l’effet de cette interaction sur la composition taxonomique et fonctionnelle des communautés floristiques. Je me concentre sur trois questions principales : (1) Comment les traits écologiques des plantes et des vecteurs influencent-ils le processus de dispersion endozoochore? ; (2) La zoochorie constitue-t-elle un filtre d’assemblage sur les traits fonctionnels des plantes dispersées? ; (3) La zoochorie imprime-t-elle un signal sur les patrons spatiaux de diversité? J’adopte à cet effet une approche expérimentale, en me concentrant sur la flore d’Europe de l’Ouest et sur les trois ongulés sauvages les plus communs dans cette région : le cerf (Cervus elaphus), le chevreuil (Capreolus capreolus) et le sanglier (Sus scrofa). Je montre que l’interaction entre les traits des plantes et des vecteurs influe sur les durées de rétention des graines, qui influencent les distances de dispersion. L’endozoochorie modifie la composition de l’assemblage d’espèces dispersé par rapport à la flore régionale en imposant un filtre fonction de l’habitat dans lequel se nourrit le vecteur animal, mais indépendant des traits morphologiques des graines. A échelle des communautés, l’effet de la zoochorie est cependant réduit relativement aux autres processus abiotiques et biotiques tels que les filtres liés à l’habitat ou l’herbivorie. Compte tenu de ces résultats, je propose de prendre en compte l’influence de la dispersion dans les modèles prédictifs de distributions des plantes, afin d’améliorer notre compréhension des dynamiques d’aires et leur prédiction en lien avec les scénarios de changements climatiques. Il apparaît en particulier nécessaire de mieux quantifier la contribution de la dispersion zoochore aux patrons de diversité et de composition des communautés végétales, relativement aux autres processus qui résultent d’interactions plantes-animaux et aux autres modes de dispersion des graines. / Dispersal is a key process shaping population dynamics. In passive dispersers like plants, the dispersal of the seed bank relies on biotic or abiotic vectors. Among the wide range of passive dispersal, zoochory influences spatial plant diversity and distribution patterns through an interaction between the ecological traits of dispersed plants and their animal vectors. In this work, I investigate the outcomes of this interaction on the taxonomic and functional composition of plant communities. I address three main questions: (1) How do the ecological traits of dispersed plants and their vectors influence the dynamics of endozoochorous dispersal? ; (2) Does zoochory affect the functional traits of dispersed species as a community assembly filter? ; (3) What is the imprint of zoochory on spatial patterns of plant diversity? I frame my work within an experimental approach focused on the West-European flora and on the three most common wild ungulates in this area: red deer (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and wild boar (Sus scrofa). I show that interactions between plant and vector traits influence dispersal distances by modulating seed retention times. Endozoochory modifies the composition of dispersed plant assemblages as compared with that of the regional pool by filtering species according to the feeding habitats of the vectors. At a community level, zoochory has a limited influence relative to other abiotic or biotic processes including habitat and herbivory. On the basis of these results, I suggest to include dispersal in predictive models of plant distributions to improve our understanding of range dynamics and their prediction especially within the framework of current global changes. My results further suggest that the contribution of zoochorie to plant diversity and community composition patterns needs to be better quantified and compared with other plant-animal interactions and other dispersal modes.

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