SEEDS

"Closing the seed-dispersal loop: How does seed-dispersal affect plant population structure at the global, regional and local scales?"

 Coordinatore UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA 

 Organization address address: PACO DAS ESCOLAS
city: COIMBRA
postcode: 3001 451

contact info
Nome: Sergio
Cognome: Vicente
Email: send email
Telefono: 351239000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Portugal [PT]
 Totale costo 100˙000 €
 EC contributo 100˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG
 Funding Scheme MC-CIG
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-01-01   -   2016-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA

 Organization address address: PACO DAS ESCOLAS
city: COIMBRA
postcode: 3001 451

contact info
Nome: Sergio
Cognome: Vicente
Email: send email
Telefono: 351239000000

PT (COIMBRA) coordinator 100˙000.00

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seed    bird    plant    syndromes    plants    inferences    colonization    dispersal    mechanisms    historical    local    regional   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Seed-dispersal is an important ecosystem function with important consequences for the dynamics of plant and animal populations. This project will cover four related objectives which will evaluate different aspects of seed dispersal at the global (biogeographic), regional (national) and local (community) scales deepening the current knowledge on seed dispersal and its consequences. Early botanists identified sets of fruit-traits – i.e. dispersal syndromes – which improve the likelihood of propagules attaining seed-dispersal by specific dispersal mechanisms. Such syndromes have been at the centre of several important inferences regarding the long-distance dispersal of seed (LDD) and the colonization of new habitats by plants, although such inferences have been often speculative. By comparing the characteristics of the Azorean and the European floras, I will evaluate which, if any, syndrome has been favoured for the colonization of the Azores islands by plants. Simultaneously I will evaluate for the first time whether dispersal syndromes are a solid base to infer actual seed-dispersal mechanisms and thus colonization vectors for seeds. At a regional scale I will use historical data on plant and bird distributions in the UK and the Netherlands to determine the possible consequences of historical bird declines – and hence seed-dispersal – on plants bearing different dispersal syndromes. Finally I will be applying a complex-network approach at a local scale to evaluate the inter-year variability and estimating the effect of sampling effort on the main descriptors of seed-dispersal networks in a scenario of plant invasions in central Portugal.'

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