Seedling recruitment in Oryzopsis hymenoides: Are desert granivores mutualists or predators?

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 3131-3148

  Longland, William S ^a   Jenkins, Stephen H ^a   Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a   Veech, Joseph A ^a   Pyare, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deserts; Dipodomys merriami; Granivory; Harvester ants; Heteromyid rodents; Indian ricegrass; Merriam's kangaroo rats; Oryzopsis hymenoides; Plant animal interactions; Seed caching; Seed dispersal; Seeds

Indexed keywords

CACHING; GRANIVORY; MUTUALISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

ACHNATHERUM HYMENOIDES; ANIMALIA; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS MERRIAMI; FORMICIDAE; HETEROMYIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MACROPUS SP.; ORYZOPSIS; ORYZOPSIS HYMENOIDES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035658811     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[3131:srioha]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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