Seed dispersal by white-tailed deer: Implications for long-distance dispersal, invasion, and migration of plants in eastern North America

Oecologia

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-44

  Myers, Jonathan A ^a,b   Vellend, Mark ^a   Gardescu, Sana ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dung; Endozoochory; Herbivore; Invasive species; Odocoileus virginianus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEER; FECES; GERMINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; ZOOCHORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORTH AMERICA; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALS; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; NORTH AMERICA; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS; TERRITORIALITY;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; FORMICIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 1942508679     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1474-2     Document Type: Article

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