dispersal event
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dispersal
noun[U]
uk/dɪˈspɜː.səl/us/dɪˈspɝː.səl/
the action of spreading across or moving away over a large area, or of making people or things ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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For those events where more than one seed was removed by the same colony, only onedispersaleventwas recorded.
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Adispersaleventis defined as the occurrence of one or more ripe intact seeds of a given species in the sample.
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Once the ripe fruit or seed is ready for removal the plant has little control over the actualdispersalevent.
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Adispersaleventfor a given species was defined as the occurrence of one or more ripe intact seeds of the species in a sample.
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Each uniquedispersaleventwhere we collected an ant specimen was treated as an independent replicate.
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The presence of dung is an intrinsic characteristic of the primarydispersaleventand should be considered when assessing the fate of seeds.
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However, this still does not explain the synchronicity of the massdispersaleventor how a biological clock could be so accurate between individuals as to co-ordinate a mass dispersal.
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More importantly, the separate biogeographic ranges of the two species may be evidence for a transoceanicdispersaleventfrom one continent to the other.
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The authors argued that just a few long-distance dispersal events during the first 10-15 y may be sufficient to initiate forest recovery.
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For example, mass dispersal events are little understood - how could individual spiders, spider mites and moths suddenly act like a group?
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We used all the observations of dispersal events per day.
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However, dispersal events for most other plant species were rare.
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They have larger groups and home range sizes and disperse seeds to longer distances, increasing the probability of occurrence of long-distance seed dispersal events.
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High spreading rates were obtained with rare long-distance dispersal events.
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If this were the case, then reduced seed movement in the monodominant forest may mean less secondary seed dispersal events that would favour the establishment of non-dominant species.
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Second, simulations were performed to investigate the effect of long-distance dispersal events on the genetic differentiation and spatial structure of populations for a maternally inherited marker.
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