Vertebrate responses to spatiotemporal variation in seed production of mast-fruiting Dipterocarpaceae

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 101-128

  Curran, L M ^a   Leighton, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borneo; Density dependence; Dipterocarpaceae; El Nino Southern Oscillation; Mast fruiting; Phenology; Predator satiation; Reproductive synchrony; Seed predation; Seedling recruitment; Sus barbatus; Tropical trees

Indexed keywords

GRANIVORY; MASTING; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

GUNUNG PALUNG NATIONAL PARK; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN;

DIPTEROCARPACEAE;

EID: 0033963904     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2000)070[0101:VRTSVI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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