Human-Mediated Dispersal of Seeds by the Airflow of Vehicles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  von der Lippe, Moritz ^a,b   Bullock, James M ^a   Kowarik, Ingo ^b   Knopp, Tatjana ^a,c   Wichmann, Matthias ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT; HUMAN MEDIATED SEED DISPERSAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT STRUCTURES; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED MORPHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AILANTHUS; AIR MOVEMENTS; AMBROSIA; AUTOMOBILES; BRASSICA NAPUS; CLEMATIS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS; WIND;

EID: 84872178536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052733     Document Type: Article

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