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Let The Seeds Fall Where They May: Investigating The Effect Of Landscape Features On Fine-Scale Seed Dispersal, Monica R. Grasty
Let The Seeds Fall Where They May: Investigating The Effect Of Landscape Features On Fine-Scale Seed Dispersal, Monica R. Grasty
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Seed dispersal is a crucial ecological and evolutionary process that allows plants to colonize sites and expand their ranges, while also reducing inbreeding depression and facilitating the spread of adaptive genetic variation. However, our fundamental understanding of seed dispersal is limited due to the difficulty of directly observing dispersal events. In recent years, genetic marker methods have furthered our understanding of colonization and range expansion due to seed dispersal. Most investigations focus on regional scales of dispersal, due to low levels of variation in the chloroplast genome (cpDNA), which can serve as an indirect measure of seed dispersal. Here, I …