This study was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)by the fellowship of A.Alves da Silva(SFRH/BD/75018/2010)and F.Garcia(SFRH/BD/131627/2017);J.Alves was supported by a contract under the strategic plan of the Centre for Functional Ecology-Science for People and the Planet(CFE)(UIDB/04004/2020),financed by FCT/MCTES through national funds(PIDDAC);The study was carried out under the project“F4F-Forest for Future-Pilot project for the constitution of a regional network for the valorization of the forest sector in the Central Region PP6-MyFORESt(CENTRO-08-5864-FSE-000031),”co-financed by the Regional Operational Programme Centro 2020,Portugal 2020,and the European Union,through the European Social Fund(ESF);This study was also funded by Instituto do Ambiente,Tecnologia e Vida da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra(IATV-UC),the strategic plan of the Centre for Functional Ecology-Science for People and the Planet(CFE)(UIDB/04004/2020);Associated Laboratory TERRA(LA/P/0092/2020).
INTRODUCTION Seed dispersal is a key process in the life cycle of most plants,with ecological and evolutionary consequences that go beyond vegetation dynamics and cascade to entire ecosystem functioning and stability(...
Supported by ‘‘The Design and Optimisation of High Speed Rotating Mixing Nozzles for Liquid-Liquid Applications” PhD Studentship provided by Huntsman Europe(Belgium)
Droplet characteristics in the cavity zone of a multi-staged high speed disperser with single inlet were studied in this paper. The influences of both the operating and structural parameters on the mean droplet diamet...
Frugivory in lizards is often assumed to be constrained by body size;only large individuals are considered capable of consuming fruits, with the potential of acting as seed dispersers. However, only one previous study...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21676007,21506005)
In this study, the mean droplet diameter in the cavity zone and the total mass transfer area of a multi-stage highspeed disperser(HSD) reactor with different packing combinations were measured and evaluated. The effec...
supported by(Polish)National Science Centre grant 2012/04/M/NZ8/00674.
The sizes of both seed dispersers and seeds are traits that are likely to interact to influence seed fate in many synzoochoric plant species.Here,we examined whether members of a granivorous rodent community consisti...
This study is framed within two projects partially financed by Fundación BBVA(Spain)and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad(CGL2013-44386-P);We are also grateful to the Charles Darwin Station and Galápagos National Park(research permits nos.PC-026-09 and PC-04-11)for logistic support in this archipelago.R.H.was funded by the FCT grant IF/00441/2013(Portugal)and the Marie Curie Action CIG-321794(European Union).
The role of the most common land iguana(Conolophus subcristatus)in the Galápagos Islands as an effective seed disperser is explored in this study.A total of 5705 seeds of 32 plant species were identified from 160 sca...
supported by China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease (2009ZX10004-101,2009ZX10004-502);Health Sector Fund (200802021);SKLID Development Grant (2008SKLID102)
Objective To quantitatively evaluate the contamination area and risk of a live pathogen during tissue homogenization by either ultrasonic processor or tissue disperser.Methods A recombinant Herpes Simplex Virus(rHSV...
This study was undertaken as part of the Rainforest CRC and conducted under CSIRO Animal Ethics Approval OB15/12 and Queensland Department of Environment Scientific Purposes Permit FO/001071/96/SAB.
Post-dispersal predation is a potentially significant modifier of the distribution of recruiting plants and an often unmeasured determinant of the effectiveness of a frugivore’s dispersal service.In the wet tropical ...
Experiment of synthesizing a disperser for coal water slurry (CWS) by using fractions of anthracene oil from high-temperature coal tar was performed. The orthogonal test was used to investigate the influence of temper...