Nándor Szabó

1 Introduction For decades, it has been widely accepted that vascular plants have ‘dispersal syndromes’ diagnosed by readily identifiable morphological traits assumed to promote dispersal by specific mechanisms (van der Pijl 1969; Howe and Smallwood 1982; Lososová et al. 2023). This perspective has shaped functional trait-based ecology, influencing how we model plant migration and species distributions (Tamme et al. 2014; Lososová et al. 2023).