Примери за mistletoe

• Distribution and dispersal of desert mistletoe is scale-dependent, hierarchically nested.

• Birds and neotropical mistletoes: effects on seedling recruitment.

• Vascular species were recorded over the whole site and totalled 120 epiphytes, 21 climbers, 3 hemiepiphytes, 5 nomadic vines and 6 mistletoes.

• However, this separation is achieved by other birds eating other types of mistletoe fruits.

• Observations were made of the way in which birds handled and processed mistletoe seeds.

• The diameter of the branch where the seed was deposited was measured, and whether they were deposited onto mistletoe branches or tree branches was recorded.

• An example of such postconsumption manipulation of dispersers' behaviour by plants is provided by mistletoes.

• The quality of dispersal of mistletoe seeds in this study was greatest when the method of seed disposal by frugivorous birds was regurgitation.

• That variation in host species selection by frugivorous birds had a direct effect on mistletoe dispersion was hypothesized.

• Frugivorous birds play an important role in parasitic mistletoe transmission among host species.

• However, not all mistletoes have seeds that germinate most successfully after regurgitation.

• Frequency of birds' visits to host species varied depending on the tree, infested-tree, or mistletoe abundance.

• However, cedar waxwings could be a better dispersal agent than gray silky-flycatchers because of their gregarious behaviour and abundance during the mistletoe fruit season.

• Contrasting cascades: insectivorous birds increase pine but not parasitic mistletoe growth.

• Tree abundance, infested-tree abundance and mistletoe abundance were different among host species.