Wing loading, not terminal velocity, is the best parameter to predict capacity of diaspores for secondary wind dispersal

Wing loading is the best proxy for estimating the capacity of diaspores for secondary wind dispersal, which allows us to predict diaspore dispersal behaviors using readily available diaspore functional attributes.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Botany

• Publication date

  2020-04-03

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/jxb/eraa170PMID 32242240PMCID 7475251
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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