Early effects of rodent post-dispersal seed predation on the outcome of the plant-seed disperser interaction

Oikos

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 362-370

  Alcántara, Julio M ^a   Rey, Pedro J ^a   Sánchez Lafuente, Alfonso M ^a   Valera, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROHABITAT; RECRUITMENT; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEED SIZE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OLEA EUROPAEA; OLEA EUROPAEA VAR. SYLVESTRIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0343114270     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880215.x     Document Type: Article

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