Post-dispersive losses of acorns from Mediterranean savannah-like forests and shrublands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 176, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 265-271

  Leiva, Maria José ^a   Fernández Alés, Rocío ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acorn losses due to small mammals; Dehesa; Livestock exclusion; Mediterranean forests management; Oak self regeneration

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FARMS; SEED;

POST-DISPERSIVE LOSSES;

FORESTRY;

EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIVESTOCK; REGENERATION; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ANIMALIA; BALLOTA; BOS TAURUS; ILEX; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037451678     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00294-3     Document Type: Article

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