Effect of seed passage through vertebrate frugivores' guts on germination: A review

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-190

  Traveset, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frugivory; Germination patterns; Seed dispersal; Seed ingestion

Indexed keywords

FRUGIVORY; GERMINATION; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PISCES; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032318861     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00057     Document Type: Article

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