Wind blown

摘要

One strategy for animal conservation is to create strips of habitat that allow individuals from isolated populations to travel long distances and so meet Damschen et al. report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that habitat corridors can also affect seed dispersal by wind . From models and studies of open areas in a forest, the authors find that prevailing winds veer towards the long axis of each corridor, accelerating within corridors and strengthening at the downwind ends, and that increased turbulence creates 'hotspots' of seed uplift.