Granivore impact on soil-seed reserves in the central Monte desert, Argentina

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 640-645

  Marone, L ^a   Rossi, B E ^a   De Casenave, J Lopez ^a  

^a LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Granivorous birds; Granivory; Postdispersal seed loss; Seed rain; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

DESERT; GRANIVORY; SEED BANK; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARGENTINA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0031718837     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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