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DIGEST

The impact of seed-dispersal by animals on plant distributions: an experimental and modelling approach

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Coordinator	KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW Organization address address: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS city: AMSTERDAM postcode: 1011 JV website: www.knaw.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Netherlands [NL]
Project website	http://caspervanleeuwen.info/h2020-zoochory-project
Total cost	177˙598 €
EC max contribution	177˙598 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-05-01 to 2019-04-30

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW Organization address address: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS city: AMSTERDAM postcode: 1011 JV website: www.knaw.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (AMSTERDAM)	coordinator	177˙598.00

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Project objective

Many plant species produce seeds that are ingested, transported and egested by animals. This dispersal mechanism is known as endozoochory, and plays a crucial role in the persistence of a broad range of plant species worldwide. The importance of endozoochory is today best known for terrestrial plant species producing fleshy-fruits around their seeds to attract animals. However, animals also massively ingest seeds that lack fleshy components in wetland ecosystems, suggesting endozoochory can also impact wetland biodiversity. Current global pressures on wetlands urge a better understanding of the dispersal mechanisms regulating biodiversity in such “islands in a sea of land”. The proposed study aims to generate a mechanistic understanding of endozoochory by studying wetland ecosystems in a novel approach: traditional time-consuming and ethically-challenging experiments with living animals will be replaced by an innovative combination of experiments and biogeographical modelling. Four key objectives are to: (I) identify contrasts and similarities between endozoochory in terrestrial and aquatic habitats in a meta-analysis; (II) modify existing artificial digestion protocols for humans and domestic animals so they simulate digestion by three key vector animal species for wetlands, during a secondment in the food industry; (III) use these protocols to estimate the endozoochorous dispersal potential for a wide range of plant species; (IV) use biogeographical modelling to test relations among the suitability index of plant species for endozoochory, plant distributions and movements of vector animals. This integrated approach will improve our mechanistic understanding of endozoochory, fuse terrestrial and aquatic ecology, exchange knowledge between academia and the industry, inform on an important ecological process in a globally changing world, and will allow me to acquire all necessary competences and contacts to initiate my own research group after this project.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	VÃctor MartÃn-VÃ©lez, B. Mohring, C.H.A. van Leeuwen, J. Shamoun-Baranes, C.B. Thaxter, J.M. Baert, C.J. Camphuysen, A.J. Green Functional connectivity network between terrestrial and aquatic habitats by a generalist waterbird, and implications for biovectoring published pages: 135886, ISSN: 0048-9697, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135886	Science of The Total Environment 705	2020-01-29
2018	Casper H. A. van Leeuwen Internal and External Dispersal of Plants by Animals: An Aquatic Perspective on Alien Interference published pages: , ISSN: 1664-462X, DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00153	Frontiers in Plant Science 9	2019-09-17

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