dispersers

• Ducks, for instance, are utterly useless as seed dispersers, unlike imperials pigeons, virtually extinct in Singapore, which can swallow several large fruit whole and pass out the seeds through the gut. —  The annotated budak
• The hwamei (a species of laughing thrush) and two species of bulbuls were compared and Weir found that whilst the former remained on average no more than 50 m from their feeding territories during a 10 minute gut passage time, bulbuls wandered about twice as far, thus functioning as effective seed dispersers for trees in Hong Kong's fragmented landscape. —  The annotated budak
• But in the light of the field's late resurgence, there is still much ground to cover, notably for seed dispersers that are now so scarce that one wonders if their forests will outlive the memory of their extinction. —  The annotated budak
• At the same time, market-driven hunting is impoverishing some areas of seed dispersers and predators, making it more difficult for forests to recover. —  Mongabay.com News
• Sericomyrmex and other lower attine species have been previously reported as important secondary dispersers of seeds in various tropical habitats, where they retrieve typically vertebrate-dispersed seeds with adhering fruit. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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