Frugivory in european laurel: how extinct seed dispersers have been substituted: Capsule extinction of ancient frugivores during the quaternary has led to a depauperated seed disperser community for laurus nobilis and a tight mutualism between the plant and the blackbird turdus merula

Bird Study

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 280-284

  Hampe, Arndt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blackbird; Blackcap; Disperser community; Fleshy fruits; Foraging behaviour; Frugivory; Laurel; Laurus nobilis; Seed dispersal; Sylvia atricapilla; Tertiary relict; Turdus merula

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FRUGIVORY; MUTUALISM; PASSERINE; QUATERNARY; SEED DISPERSAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LAURACEAE; LAURUS; LAURUS NOBILIS; PASSERIFORMES; SYLVIA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; TURDUS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0345015978     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650309461320     Document Type: Article

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