Episode description
Seeds have many ways to get out into the world. Greg shares fascinating strategies plants use to disburse seeds.
Related episodes: Hedge Apples, Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch
Our sources for this episode include:
- Falling Far from the Tree: 7 Brilliant Ways Seeds and Fruits Are Dispersed
- Daniel Janzen - Bio and Research
- The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms by Connie Barlow
- Lengyel, S.; et al. (2009). Chave, Jerome (ed.). "Ants Sow the Seeds of Global Diversification in Flowering Plants"
- Howe, H. F. & Smallwood J. (1982). "Ecology of Seed Dispersal" (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 13: 201–228.
- The Ant Dance - YouTube video with Greg Torres
- The Bird Dance- YouTube video with Greg Torres