Patterns of variation in Ilex aquifolium fruit traits related to fruit consumption by birds and seed predation by rodents

Ecoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 463-469

  Obeso, José Ramòn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blank seeds; Brood size reduction; Fleshy fruit architecture; Fruit allometry; Fruit consumption; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BROOD SIZE; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; SEED PREDATION;

AVES; ILEX; ILEX AQUIFOLIUM; RODENTIA; TURDUS ILIACUS;

EID: 0032464157     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1998.11682494     Document Type: Article

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