Table 2. Some orders of magnitude of seed dispersal distances of tree species in tropical rainforests, as estimated from field studies (extracted from [18]).

Dispersal mode	Species name	Measure of dispersal distance		Site
		mean/median/other	maximum
Autochory	Eperua falcata	60% of trees within 10 m	30 m	French Guiana
Anemochory	Lophopetalum wightianum	median at 15–43 m	30–80 m	Western Ghats, India
Anemochory	Platypodium elegans	median at 10–23 m	75–105 m	Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Anemochory	Swintonia schwenkii	-	few fruits > 50 m	Gunung Gadut, Sumatra
Zoochory (bat)	Carollia perspicillata	90% of seeds within 50 m	few seeds > 300 m	Costa Rica
Zoochory (bird)	various	mean & median at 100–300 m	-	Rwanda (montane forest)
Zoochory (monkey)	various	mean at 76–440 m	288–575 m	La Macarena, Columbia