Forwarding pl. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: [email protected] Date: 18 June 2014 10:02 Subject: Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds: Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants To:
(from: OrientalBirding e-group) Dear colleagues, New information about the role of migratory birds influencing plant distribution comes from evidence of them carrying microscopic bits of plants (bryophyte diaspores). Read on Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds: Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140612085339.htm#.U5nS1UlXHiE.facebook Full paper can be downloaded here: Lily R. Lewis, Emily Behling, Hannah Gousse, Emily Qian, Chris S. Elphick, Jean-François Lamarre, Joël Bêty, Joe Liebezeit, Ricardo Rozzi, Bernard Goffinet. First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds. PeerJ, 2014; 2: e424 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.424<http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.424> (12 MB!) Do feel free to circulate it further. With best regards, Taej Taej Mundkur, Ph.D. Programme Manager - Flyways & Chair, CMS Flyways Working Group Wetlands International P.O. Box 471, 6700AL Wageningen, The Netherlands Tel: +31318660910 Mobile: +31614987324 Skype: taejmundkur www.wetlands.org<http://www.wetlands.org/> [cid:[email protected]]< http://www.wetlands.org/GetInvolved/SupportOurWork/tabid/3465/Default.aspx> [cid:[email protected]] <https://www.facebook.com/wetlandsint> [cid: [email protected]] <https://twitter.com/wetlandsint> [cid: [email protected]] < http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1431367&trk=anet_ug_hm> [cid:[email protected]] "We safeguard and restore wetlands for people and nature" Please note that I am working only on Mondays, Wednesday afternoons and Thursdays. -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2350 members & 1,90,000 messages on 31/5/14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
