Seed dispersal, seed predation, and seedling recruitment of a neotropical montane tree

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 331-351

  Wenny, Daniel G ^a,b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aulacorhynchus prasinus; Birds, seed dispersal; Chamaepetes unicolor; Neotropical cloud forest in Costa Rica; Ocotea endresiana (Lauraceae); Pharomachrus mocinno; Procnias tricarunculata; Recruitment; Rodents; Seed dispersal and predation; Seed predation; Seedling survival; Turdus plebejus

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ECOLOGY; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; TREE; ZOOCHORY;

COSTA RICA;

AULACORHYNCHUS PRASINUS; CHAMAEPETES UNICOLOR; OCOTEA ENDRESIANA; PEROMYSCUS MEXICANUS; PHAROMACHRUS MOCINNO; PROCNIAS TRICARUNCULATA; TURDUS PLEBEJUS;

EID: 0033815373     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2000)070[0331:SDSPAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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