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How far might plant-eating dinosaurs have moved seeds?

George L W Perry1.   

Abstract

Fossilized gut contents suggest that seeds consumed by dinosaurs may have remained intact in their stomachs, and since seed dispersal distance increases with body-mass in extant vertebrates, dinosaurs may have moved seeds long distances. I simulated seed dispersal by dinosaurs across body-masses from 1 × 101 to 8 × 104 kg using allometric random walk models, informed by relationships between (i) body-mass and movement speed, and (ii) body-mass and seed retention time. Seed dispersal distances showed a hump-shaped relationship with body-mass, reflecting the allometric relationship between maximum movement speed and body-mass. Across a range of assumptions and parameterizations, the simulations suggest that plant-eating dinosaurs could have dispersed seeds long distances.

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Keywords:  allometric theory; dinosaurs; random walks; seed dispersal; spatial models

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Year:  2021        PMID: 33401998      PMCID: PMC7876603          DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0689

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Biol Lett        ISSN: 1744-9561            Impact factor:   3.703


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1.  How far might plant-eating dinosaurs have moved seeds?

Authors:  George L W Perry
Journal:  Biol Lett       Date:  2021-01-06       Impact factor: 3.703

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