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Effectiveness of Seed Traps for Assessing Seed Rain in Periurban Grasslands

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Landscape context plays an important role in plant community structuring, with selection pressure affecting dispersal ability. This is particularly true in cities, where land use heterogeneity and habitat fragmentation can affect plant dispersal patterns. Seed rain surveys are often used to study dispersal but involve a wide variety of methods and trap types and rarely address the urban context. This study aimed to (1) compare seed rain, especially of anemochorous seeds, in different spatial contexts in a periurban area in Angers (western France); and (2) compare seed rain captured using different trap types (funnel traps/sticky traps), trap heights, and shapes. Seven sites, each equipped with five replicates of funnel traps, were selected in a periurban area in the western part of Angers. Within one of these sites, ten types of traps (differing in trapping method, height, shape, degree of tilt, and area) were employed and their performance compared. The results show that trap height rather than trap type is responsible for differences in seed density and composition. Furthermore, the composition of collected seeds appears to be associated with surrounding land cover, in particular built areas, which has implications for urban ecology in terms of understanding the influence of landscape factors on plant dispersal.
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hal-04253780 , version 1 (23-10-2023)

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Clément Gros, Adeline Bulot, Ferréol Braud, Stéphanie Aviron, Hervé Daniel. Effectiveness of Seed Traps for Assessing Seed Rain in Periurban Grasslands. Diversity, 2023, 15 (9), pp.1015. ⟨10.3390/d15091015⟩. ⟨hal-04253780⟩
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