Female-directed dispersal and facilitation between a tropical mistletoe and a dioecious host

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3245-3251

  Carlo, Tomás A ^a,d   Aukema, Juliann Eve ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cecropia schreberiana; Dioecious trees; Directed dispersal; Euphonia musica; Facilitation; Frugivory; Generalist consumers; Mistletoes; Phoradendron hexastichum; Puerto Rico; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

FACILITATION; FEMALE; FRUGIVORY; SEED DISPERSAL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

AVES; CECROPIA; CECROPIA SCHREBERIANA; EUPHONIA; EUPHONIA MUSICA; PHORADENDRON; PHORADENDRON HEXASTICHUM; SPINDALIS PORTORICENSIS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 30644479722     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0460     Document Type: Article

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