Where does a fruit-eating bird deposit mistletoe seeds? Seed deposition patterns and an experiment

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3489-3496

  Aukema, Juliann E ^a,c   Martínez Del Rio, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregated spatial distributions; Desert mistletoes; Directed dispersal; Foraging; Frugivory; Habitat use; Parasitism; Phainopepla nitens; Phoradendron californicum; Prosopis velutina; Seed dispersal; Velvet mesquites

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FRUGIVORY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOCHORY;

AVES; PHAINOPEPLA; PHAINOPEPLA NITENS; PHORADENDRON CALIFORNICUM; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS VELUTINA; VELUTINA;

EID: 0013113693     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3489:WDAFEB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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