Passage through bird guts increases germination rate and seedling growth in Sorbus aucuparia

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 608-616

  Paulsen, T R ^a   Hogstedt G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Frugivory; Germinability; Rate of seedling emergence; Seed ingestion; Seed mass

Indexed keywords

FRUGIVORY; GERMINATION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; ZOOCHORY;

NORWAY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA; SORBUS; SORBUS AUCUPARIA; TURDIDAE; TURDUS;

EID: 0036792296     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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