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ReviewAoB PLANTS2020

Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology.

Noelle G Beckman, Clare E Aslan, Haldre S Rogers, Oleg Kogan, Judith L Bronstein, James M Bullock, Florian Hartig, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Ying Zhou, Damaris Zurell and 23 more

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Review in AoB PLANTS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Examining the structure of plant-lemur interactions in the face of imperfect knowledge.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

33 authors.

Noelle G BeckmanDepartment of Biology & Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
Clare E AslanLandscape Conservation Initiative, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Haldre S RogersDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
Oleg KoganPhysics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.
Judith L BronsteinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
James M BullockCentre for Ecology and Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, UK.
Florian HartigTheoretical Ecology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Janneke HilleRisLambersBiology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Ying ZhouDepartment of Mathematics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA.
Damaris ZurellSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Dept. Land Change Science, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
Jedediah F BrodieDivision of Biological Sciences and Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
Emilio M BrunaDepartment of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation & Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Robert Stephen CantrellDepartment of Mathematics, The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Robin R DeckerDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Edu EfiomREDD+ Unit, Cross River State Forestry Commission, Calabar, Nigeria.
Evan C FrickeNational Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, USA.
Katherine GurskiDepartment of Mathematics, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.
Alan HastingsDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Jeremy S JohnsonSchool of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Bette A LoiselleCenter for Latin American Studies and Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Maria N MiritiDepartment of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Michael G NeubertDepartment of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
Liba PejcharDepartment of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
John R PoulsenNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Gesine PufalNatur Conservation and Landscape Ecology, University of Freiburg Freiburg, Germany.
Onja H RazafindratsimaDepartment of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
Manette E SandorLandscape Conservation Initiative, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Katriona SheaDepartment of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Sebastian SchreiberDepartment of Evolution and Ecology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Eugene W SchuppDepartment of Wildland Resources & Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
Rebecca S SnellDepartment of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.
Christopher StricklandDepartment of Mathematics, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Jenny ZambranoDepartment of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although dispersal is generally viewed as a crucial determinant for the fitness of any organism, our understanding of its role in the persistence and spread of plant populations remains incomplete. Generalizing and predicting dispersal processes are challenging due to context dependence of seed dispersal, environmental heterogeneity and interdependent processes occurring over multiple spatial and temporal scales. Current population models often use simple phenomenological descriptions of dispersal processes, limiting their ability to examine the role of population persistence and spread, especially under global change. To move seed dispersal ecology forward, we need to evaluate the impact of any single seed dispersal event within the full spatial and temporal context of a plant's life history and environmental variability that ultimately influences a population's ability to persist and spread. In this perspective, we provide guidance on integrating empirical and theoretical approaches that account for the context dependency of seed dispersal to improve our ability to generalize and predict the consequences of dispersal, and its anthropogenic alteration, across systems. We synthesize suitable theoretical frameworks for this work and discuss concepts, approaches and available data from diverse subdisciplines to help operationalize concepts, highlight recent breakthroughs across research areas and discuss ongoing challenges and open questions. We address knowledge gaps in the

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Analytical modelsdemographyglobal changeindividual-based modelslong-distance seed dispersalpopulation modelsseed dispersal

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PMID32346468
PMCPMC7179845

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