Impact on fruit removal and seed predation of a secondary metabolite, emodin, in Rhamnus alaternus fruit pulp

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 290-299

  Tsahar, Ella ^a,c   Friedman, Jacob ^c   Izhaki, Ido ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Univ of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; INVERTEBRATA; PASSER; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PYCNONOTUS; PYCNONOTUS XANTHOPYGOS; RHAMNACEAE; RHAMNUS; RHAMNUS ALATERNUS;

EID: 18744369026     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.990209.x     Document Type: Article

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