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Meaning of zoocoria



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

zoocoria
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It is a natural seed dispersal system where the executing agent is any type of animal and by many ways and forms. They can even take names according to the type of animal that disperses it : mamaliocoria (mammals), ornittocoria (birds), chiroptocoria (murcilados), ichthyocora ( fish), etc.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Dispersal of seeds of plants by animals; thos thoos Greek: animal and chora choras: land, region, country, ( in the Greek scientist, dispersion ) Botanists support many forms of zoocoria according to the form of the dispersion or the animal that makes it. Thus speak of epizoocoria, endozoocory, diszoocoria, antropocoria, ornitocoria, mamaliocoria, quiropterocoria, entomocoria, myrmecochory, ictiocoria, saurocoria...

  










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