The role of ants and mammals in dispersal and post-dispersal seed predation of the shrubs Grevillea (Proteaceae)

Plant Ecology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-213

  Auld, Tony D ^a   Denham, A J ^a  

^a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fire; Forests; Myrmecochory; Soil seedbanks; Threatened species; Woodlands

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; ZOOCHORY;

AUSTRALIA;

GREVILLEA;

EID: 0032864744     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009817132378     Document Type: Article

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