What resources are available to desert granivores: Seed rain or soil seed bank?

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 764-773

  Price, Mary V ^a   Joyner, Jamie W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food storage; Granivory; Heteromyid rodents; Mojave Desert; Resource availability; Resource dynamics; Seed bank; Seed caching; Seed rain

Indexed keywords

GRANIVORY; RODENT; SEED BANK; SEED RAIN;

USA, CALIFORNIA, MOJAVE DESERT;

EID: 0030616839     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0764:WRAATD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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