300423 VO+UE Spez. prakt.: Ausbreitungsökologie - Früchte/Samen (2006W)

Dispersal ecology of fruits and seeds: Selected examples of dispersal modes in higher plants are used to illustrate the following topics: Summary of classification and strategies of dispersal; Self dispersal with help of special devices (autochory); Wind dispersal; Dispersal of diaspores by rain and streaming water (hydrochory); Transportation of diaspores by vertebrates (zoochory); Dispersal by ants (myrmecochory); Dispersal strategies in selected ecosystems; Ecological significance of mechanism that inhibit dispersal (antitelechory);