A microhistological survey on the trees of a relict subtropical laurel forest from the Macaronesian Islands as a base for assessing vertebrate plant diet

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 409-426

  Marrero, Patricia ^a   Nogales, Manuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evergreen forest; Feeding ecology; Historical keys; Plant epidermis

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; IDENTIFICATION KEY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MACARONESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

MACARONESIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 23444457926     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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