Regeneration patterns in relation to dispersal traits remain understudied in temperate forests. Yet many woody species are dispersed by frugivores (primarily birds, carnivora and ungulates), some of which have undergone major population changes in recent decades. Here, we used the extensive French national forest inventory (‘NFI' ; about 100,000 plots located in 86 sylvoecoregions between 2007 and 2022) to investigate to what extent fruit type, i.e. fleshy-fruited (‘FF') vs dry-fruited (‘DF'), does influence the ability of trees to regenerate away of mother plants across space and time. We used the NFI diameter at breast height (dbh) threshold to define two cohorts: regeneration (dbh < 7.5 cm) and census trees (dbh > 7.5 cm). For each species, we determined a potential colonisation index, 'RegeAway', calculated as the ratio between the number of plots with regeneration only and the number of plots with conspecific census trees, per sylvoecoregion and year. We assigned fruit type and maximum dbh (95th percentile extracted from census data) to woody species; to limit collinearity, we retained the species at the intersection of the two maximum dbh ranges (11.5-51 cm), which corresponds to 60 species (30 DF and 30 FF species). We measured the level of fragmentation of forest habitats at the sylvoecoregion scale by computing landscape metrics thanks to precise forest cover maps. Preliminary results show that RegeAway was much higher for FF species than for DF ones, especially in fragmented landscapes, which probably reflects the more effective seed dispersal of FF plants thanks to frugivores. In addition, we found that RegeAway significantly decreased overall over time, which might reflect the rise in herbivory levels over the last 15 years. Lastly, RegeAway was modulated in a complex way by fruit type, fragmentation level and year, which might be linked to differential population trajectories among frugivores but also to the ageing of stands. Further investigation is necessary to understand potential disruption of seed dispersal in temperate forests, particularly in the context of climate change.