Dispersal of melastome seeds by fruit-eating birds of tropical forest understory

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 330-336

  Loiselle, Bette A ^a   Blake, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Diets of understory frugivores; Frugivory; Habitat selection; Impact on plants; La Selva, Costa Rica; Melastomataceae; Seed dispersal by birds; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; SEED DISPERSAL; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MELASTOMATACEAE;

EID: 0032922357     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0330:DOMSBF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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