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Seed Dispersal
• Leptokurtic curve with low mean and long tail
• dense stand • edge of forest • wind factors • Seasonal release of seeds
Seed Pool• Buffering populations
from environmental variation
• Seed dormancy would be opposed if there was no environmental variation
• Selection for immediate germination
Characteristics of seed pool
• Seed germination • Seed dormancy types • born dormant • enforced by
season/switched on • breaking dormancy • Seed longevity in pool • Seed senescence in
pool