Causative factors influencing epizoochorous dispersal of weed seeds by sheep and associated carcass contamination in southern Australia

Agriculture & Biology

• ovine carcasses 100%
• annual weeds 70%
• Bromus 69%
• weeds 57%
• sheep 49%
• Hordeum 48%
• grass weeds 46%
• incidence 37%
• seeds 37%
• slaughterhouses 36%
• rain 27%
• grasses 26%
• seed damage 25%
• integrated weed management 24%
• agroecological zones 22%
• animal tissues 20%
• seed dispersal 19%
• climate change 14%
• barley 14%
• monitoring 11%
• gender 10%
• temperature 7%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• weed 80%
• sheep 77%
• seed 61%
• contamination 46%
• grass 34%
• seed dispersal 12%
• rainfall 12%
• range expansion 12%
• barley 11%
• surveillance 9%
• penetration 8%
• tissue 7%
• animal 6%
• damage 6%
• climate change 5%
• need 5%