Track 2‐7‐1: Seed Production, Storage, Quality, Testing, Quarantine and Marketing Systems
Description
Herbivores can play an important role in seed dispersal. Climate, available vegetation for grazing, pasture situation can determine the seed dispersal trends by the grazing animals. Tropical climate of India with wide climatic variation leads to fluctuating herbage quality and available biomass. Ruminants spread plants through fecal pellets after grazing at one place and fecal voiding at another. Herbivores can play an important role in seed dispersal. Climate, available vegetation for grazing, pasture situation can determine the seed dispersal trends by the grazing animals. Tropical climate of India with wide climatic variation leads to fluctuating herbage quality and available biomass. Ruminants spread plants through fecal pellets after grazing at one place and fecal voiding at another. Sheep have narrow mouths and flexible lips than other ruminants that lead them selective grazing on palatable forage (Grande et al., 2013). During dry season and hearse climate they are forced to graze on dried up grasses and twigs and thereby consume mature seed and seed those not digested passes through fecal pellets that has endozoochorus characteristics. Herbivores can affect vegetation by driving dispersal patterns of plants or zoochory (Fenner and Thompson, 2005). For grazing animal, germination success of seed from fecal pellets determined by the eating rate of animal under grazing along with palatable plants (Pakeman et al., 2002) and the solvability of seed in the digestive system.
Tropical climate pasture dominated by different grass species along with weeds has bushes too for browsing. During late winter to dry season between January to May, animal compelled to graze on available dry grasses and weeds and those seed disperse through pelleting in other areas. Information on this regard is very rare to compare and present studies conducted at tropical climate of India during January to May.
Citation
Das, Nityanada and Maity, S. B., "Endozoochorus Seed Dispersal by Jalauni Sheep in Tropical Climate: Recovery and Germinability under Natural Pasture Grazing" (2020). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 17.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/23/2-7-1/17
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Endozoochorus Seed Dispersal by Jalauni Sheep in Tropical Climate: Recovery and Germinability under Natural Pasture Grazing
Herbivores can play an important role in seed dispersal. Climate, available vegetation for grazing, pasture situation can determine the seed dispersal trends by the grazing animals. Tropical climate of India with wide climatic variation leads to fluctuating herbage quality and available biomass. Ruminants spread plants through fecal pellets after grazing at one place and fecal voiding at another. Herbivores can play an important role in seed dispersal. Climate, available vegetation for grazing, pasture situation can determine the seed dispersal trends by the grazing animals. Tropical climate of India with wide climatic variation leads to fluctuating herbage quality and available biomass. Ruminants spread plants through fecal pellets after grazing at one place and fecal voiding at another. Sheep have narrow mouths and flexible lips than other ruminants that lead them selective grazing on palatable forage (Grande et al., 2013). During dry season and hearse climate they are forced to graze on dried up grasses and twigs and thereby consume mature seed and seed those not digested passes through fecal pellets that has endozoochorus characteristics. Herbivores can affect vegetation by driving dispersal patterns of plants or zoochory (Fenner and Thompson, 2005). For grazing animal, germination success of seed from fecal pellets determined by the eating rate of animal under grazing along with palatable plants (Pakeman et al., 2002) and the solvability of seed in the digestive system.
Tropical climate pasture dominated by different grass species along with weeds has bushes too for browsing. During late winter to dry season between January to May, animal compelled to graze on available dry grasses and weeds and those seed disperse through pelleting in other areas. Information on this regard is very rare to compare and present studies conducted at tropical climate of India during January to May.
