Sentence examples for mode of seed from inspiring English sources
After their extinction, these healthy natural disturbances ceased, white oaks lost their primary mode of seed dispersal (i.e., via bird droppings), and the forests have never been the same.
Five (5) scenarios were assessed, implying that genetic modifications (GM) or transgenes get introduced through mode of seed acquisition and via larger fields as follows: ― Scenario 1: GM seeds sown were obtained under exchange conditions, meaning that the seeds were obtained from other fielders as gifts or exchanged.
Such equivocal results could indicate that the effect of seed dispersal mutualisms on diversification varies by either the ancestral mode of seed dispersal, biogeographic region, or the identity of the animal partner and the distance it moves seeds.
To estimate the ancestral mode of seed dispersal in myrmecochorous lineages, it was most parsimonious to assume that the dispersal mode in the non-myrmecochorous sister group was ancestral to both lineages.
This difference in the values could be attributed to the possibility of an apomictic mode of seed development.
This was the only potential mode of seed dispersal for one common plant species (Maniltoa grandiflora) whose large seeds were consumed by both flying foxes and rats.
Without knowledge of fertilization in the cycads and Ginkgo, it is highly unlikely that scientists would have more than remote theories as to the reproductive modes of seed ferns and other extinct groups of seed plants.
Two hypotheses about its woody fruit shell were initially considered: zoochory and hydrochory as two modes of seed dispersal.
Most annuals in the study region lack a specialized mode of dispersal, their seeds just fall off the plant.
A slower mode of BWA (no seeding; searching for suboptimal hits even if the top hit is a repeat) did even better.
Animals were habituated to the experimental arenas and to the required mode of feeding from seed-trays for 4 days followed by an experiment where only ground cover was manipulated for six days (reported in [ 33]).
