Ants as seed dispersers in a Mediterranean old-field succession

Oikos

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 443-452

  Wolff, Axel ^a   Debussche, Max ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EUPHORBIA NICAEENSIS; QUERCUS PUBESCENS; VIOLA ALBA;

EID: 0033011764     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546423     Document Type: Article

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