Two-phase seed dispersal: Linking the effects of frugivorous birds and seed-caching rodents

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 282-287

  Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a   Kuhn, Kellie M ^a   Gworek, Jennifer R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird feces; Frugivory; Granivory; Scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIRD; CACHING; FRUGIVORY; GRANIVORY; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLACK CURRANT; CORNUS; CYTOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRUNUS; RHAMNUS; RODENT; ROSACEAE; SAMBUCUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CORNUS; DEMOGRAPHY; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PRUNUS; RHAMNUS; RIBES; RODENTIA; ROSACEAE; SAMBUCUS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CERVIDAE; CRICETINAE; FORMICA SIBYLLA; FORMICIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; TAMIAS AMOENUS;

EID: 27444440452     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0125-1     Document Type: Article

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