Effect of distance, aggregation, and habitat on levels of seed predation for two mammal - Dispersed neotropical rain forest tree species

Oecologia

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-227

  Notman, Evan ^a,b   Gorchov, David L ^b   Cornejo, Fernando ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Peru)

Author keywords

Forest regeneration; Macoubea guianensis; Pouteria sp.; Seed dispersal; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; RAIN FOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; ZOOCHORY;

PERU;

APOCYNACEAE; MACOUBEA GUIANENSIS; POUTERIA; SAPOTACEAE;

EID: 0029730929     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328602     Document Type: Article

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