Plant colonization: Are wind dispersed seeds really dispersed by birds at larger spatial and temporal scales?

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-65

  Wilkinson, David M ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

birds; corvids; Holocene; migrations; Seed dispersal; trees; wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

ANEMOCHORY; HOLOCENE; ORNITHOCHORY; SEED DISPERSAL; TREE MIGRATION; WIND;

EUROPE, GUANGDONG PROVINCE;

EID: 0030617841     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.1997.tb00050.x     Document Type: Article

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