Bird-Mediated Plant Colonization and How Plants Spread to Islands
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A study on bird-mediated plant colonization challenges existing assumptions about how plants spread to islands, with implications for understanding ecological processes.
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Original article: "Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70234
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