Ground-foraging palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) in lowland New Guinea: Fruit flesh as a directed deterrent to seed predation?

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 355-361

  Filardi, Christopher E ^a,b   Tewksbury, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassowary; Directed deterrence; Dispersal; Evolution; Fruit frugivore interaction; Morphology; Terminalia

Indexed keywords

FRUGIVORY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NEW GUINEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

CACATUIDAE; CASUARIIDAE; CASUARIUS; PROBOSCIGER ATERRIMUS; TERMINALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22744443044     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467405002336     Document Type: Article

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