COPENHAGEN, Jan 15 — Declines in seed-dispersing animal species are harming plants’ ability to move to more suitable habitats in a warming world, a new study in the journal Science said Thursday.
The paper is the first to quantify the issue at the global scale, and estimates that the ability of animal-dispersed plants to keep pace with climate change has already been reduced by 60 percent due to the loss of mammals and birds. Around half of all plants rely on animals to eat their fruit or nuts to carry forward their seeds, while some depend on wind alone.
The models went into great detail, including “which animals eat the seeds of which fruit, how far the seeds go from the mother plant, and also the impact of that passage on germination,” said Fricke. For example, if a South American fox wasn’t as well studied as a European fox, but had similar characteristics, the computational model predicted how it would interact with seeds.
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