Metabolically active angiosperms survive passage through the digestive tract of a large-bodied waterbird
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230090" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230090</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230090" target="_blank" >10.1098/rsos.230090</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Metabolically active angiosperms survive passage through the digestive tract of a large-bodied waterbird
Original language description
Avian vectors, such as ducks, swans and geese, are important dispersers of plant propagules. Until recently, it was thought that small vegetative propagules were reliant on adherence to vectors and are unlikely to survive passage through the avian digestive tract. Here, we conclusively demonstrate that metabolically active angiosperms can survive passage through the digestive tract of a large-bodied waterbird. In addition, we show that extended periods of air exposure for up to 7 days does not inhibit the survival of plantlets embedded in faecal matter. Following air exposure, plantlets (n = 3000) were recovered from 75 faecal samples of mute swans, Cygnus olor, with the survival of 203 plantlets. The number of recovered and surviving plantlets did not significantly differ among durations of air exposure. For recovered plantlets, the long-term viability and clonal reproduction of two duckweed species, Lemna minor and L. gibba, were confirmed following greater than eight months of growth. These data further amplify the key role of waterbirds as vectors for aquatic plant dispersal and demonstrate the internal transport (i.e. endozoochory) of metabolically active plantlets. These data suggest dispersal of vegetative plant propagules by avian vectors is likely to be a common occurrence, underpinning connectivity, range expansion and invasions of some aquatic plants.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Royal Society Open Science
ISSN
2054-5703
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000957078500008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150835377