Post-dispersal seed predation: Consequences for plant demography and evolution

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-46

  Hulme, Philip E ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ants; Density dependence; Masting; Microsites; Rodents; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AVES; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345505821     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00050     Document Type: Article

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