EDITOR’S NOTE: Scientists believe they may have found a way to regrow tropical forest on deforested lands. The plan would involve planting fast-growing, fruit-producing trees, like figs, in the ...

Wildlife corridors--clear tracts of land intended to help maintain biodiversity by allowing animals to move between otherwise isolated natural areas--may also aid stationary plants in the same way. A ...

image: A study conducted at the University of São Paulo and published in Science correlates birds and plants in seed dispersal networks (Thraupis sayaca) view more More than 70% of plant species that ...

On a recent hike, I heard a volley of high-pitched screams coming from a thick stand of small spruces just beside the trail. They sounded very much like the cries of a red-tailed hawk, but that bird ...

The evolution of fleshy fruit size, in particular in bird-dispersed plants, is believed to be influenced by the size of seed-dispersing vertebrates through gape limitation. Also, it has been ...

Research on Caribbean plants reveals ancient bird flights between Cuba and Haiti helped create one of the region’s richest mountain hotspots.

Oahu's ecosystems have been so affected by species extinctions and invasions that most of the seeds dispersed on the island belong to nonnative plants, and most of them are dispersed by nonnative ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Without seed dispersal plants could not survive. Seed dispersal—i.e. birds spreading seeds or wind carrying seeds—means the mechanism by which a ...

The weka, a flightless bird in New Zealand, brings plants to new areas by eating their fruit and excreting the seeds. But some choose to stick close to humans and their food, limiting their range. By ...