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EurekAlert: Maintaining the world's threatened animal and plant species may rest with something as simple as knowing how far a bird can fly before it must answer nature's call.
Birds disperse seeds as they travel, but deforestation can mean those seeds might land where they can't sprout and grow, according to a University of Florida researcher who co-wrote a study in last month's issue of Ecology that looks at how tropical birds disperse plant seeds in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.
If birds spread plant......
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UF research aims to help preserve plants, animals caught between forest ‘fragments’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 18th, 2011
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