Here are a few (and the references within each) that may help:

Howe, H.F. and Smallwood, J. 1982. Ecology of seed dispersal. Annual review of ecology and systematics, 13(1), pp.201-228.

Nathan, R. and Muller-Landau, H.C. 2000. Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment. Trends in ecology & evolution, 15(7), pp.278-285.

Hamrick, J.L., Godt, M.J.W. and Sherman-Broyles, S.L., 1992. Factors influencing levels of genetic diversity in woody plant species. In Population genetics of forest trees (pp. 95-124). Springer, Dordrecht.

Hamrick, J.L. and Godt, M.J.W., 1996. Effects of life history traits on genetic diversity in plant species. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 351(1345), pp.1291-1298.

Those references from Andrew look good. Here are some examples of the strategies below (don't confuse pollination, which is a different process):

Wind dispersal: plants have fruits with parachutes of hairs that catch the wind and are blown about. Other fruits have wings which can be blown about and carried over distances.

Animal dispersal: seeds of juicy fruits can be carried by birds and other animals. The fruits are eaten, but only the juicy parts are digested. The stones and pips leave the animal's body via the droppings which may be some distance away from the parent plants. e.g. blackberry, cherry and apple. In the case of mistletoe (a plant parasite), the sticky fruits are eaten by birds, which then clean their beaks on the bark of trees, leaving behind a sticky seed which can grow into a new mistletoe plant on the tree. Small seeds can be carried on the feet of birds and other animals. Fruits with hooks and barbs are carried in the hair, fur and wool of animals. Squirrels bury nuts, including acorns, for food supplies over the winter, but sometimes leave some behind which may grow into new plants in the spring.

Thank you - the 2nd Hamrick paper looked promising, but doesn't quite get at what I was looking for. I am well acquainted with the first two references and different strategies of seed dispersal ;)

If it has been done, it would have been for genera with both wind- and animal-dispersed species, like pines. The transition from wind to fleshy fruits, in contrast, seems to be 'too difficult' to occur within a genus, so you would end up comparing very different plants rather than sister species or genera. You would then need to do it across the whole plant phylogeny to get enough power to detect anything. This has been done for rates of diversification but not, as far as I know, the parameters you are interested in. Please do it and let us know what you find out! Richard

Thank you Richard! Working on a revision that starts to get at this question, and wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing any key references. Will share when it’s done :)

The paper has been published! Access it here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12989

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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2017.00038/full

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