Effect of passage through duck gut on germination of fennel pondweed seeds

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-22

  Santamaría, Luis ^a,c   Charalambidou, Iris ^a   Figuerola, Jordi ^b   Green, Andy J ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anas spp.; Dispersal; Endozoochory; Germination; Potamogeton pectinatus

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; DIGESTION; GERMINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; WATERFOWL; ZOOCHORY;

ANAS; ANAS CLYPEATA; ANAS PENELOPE; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ANSER; FOENICULUM VULGARE; PECTINATUS; PENELOPE; POTAMOGETON; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036915090     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-9136/2002/0156-0011     Document Type: Article

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