ReviewAoB PLANTS2019
The total dispersal kernel: a review and future directions.
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- Common seed dispersers contribute most to the persistence of a fleshy-fruited tree.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Long-term, large-scale experiment reveals the effects of seed limitation, climate, and anthropogenic disturbance on restoration of plant communities in a biodiversity hotspot.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- CoFee-L: A Model of Animal Displacement in Large Groups Combining Cohesion Maintenance, Feeding Area Search and Transient Leadership.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Self-consistent dispersal puts tight constraints on the spatiotemporal organization of species-rich metacommunities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Forest degradation limits the complementarity and quality of animal seed dispersal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Seed dispersal by wind decreases when plants are water-stressed, potentially counteracting species coexistence and niche evolution.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Woodpeckers can act as dispersal vectors for fungi, plants, and microorganisms.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
The distribution and abundance of plants across the world depends in part on their ability to move, which is commonly characterized by a dispersal kernel. For seeds, the total dispersal kernel (TDK) describes the combined influence of all primary, secondary and higher-order dispersal vectors on the overall dispersal kernel for a plant individual, population, species or community. Understanding the role of each vector within the TDK, and their combined influence on the TDK, is critically important for being able to predict plant responses to a changing biotic or abiotic environment. In addition, fully characterizing the TDK by including all vectors may affect predictions of population spread. Here, we review existing research on the TDK and discuss advances in empirical, conceptual modelling and statistical approaches that will facilitate broader application. The concept is simple, but few examples of well-characterized TDKs exist. We find that significant empirical challenges exist, as many studies do not account for all dispersal vectors (e.g. gravity, higher-order dispersal vectors), inadequately measure or estimate long-distance dispersal resulting from multiple vectors and/or neglect spatial heterogeneity and context dependence. Existing mathematical and conceptual modelling approaches and statistical methods allow fitting individual dispersal kernels and combining them to form a TDK; these will perform best if robust prior information is available. We recommend a modelling cycle to parameterize TDKs, where empirical data inform models, which in turn inform additional data collection. Finally, we recommend that the TDK concept be extended to account for not only where seeds land, but also how that location affects the likelihood of establishing and producing a reproductive adult, i.e. the total effective dispersal kernel.
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