A surplus of seeds: High rates of post-dispersal seed predation in a flooded grassland in monsoonal Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 385-392

  Wurm, P A S ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grassland; Inundation; Kakadu National Park; Oryza meridionalis; Seed predation; Tropical wetland; Vertebrate seed predators

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444395267     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00743.x     Document Type: Article

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