She studies sylvan seeds

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“What role to animals play in spreading seeds, and how does hunting affect that?”

“Sylvan” is a fancy word for “forest.” And Noelle Beckman, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, studies how animals influence the make-up of tropical forests. In particular, she wants to know if hunting, which removes animals from an ecosystem, has any impact on which plants continue to thrive.

Different plants spread their seeds in different ways
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