Life on the edge for limber pine: Seed dispersal within a peripheral population

Ecoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 519-529

  Tomback, Diana F ^a   Schoettle, Anna W ^b   Chevalier, Kristen E ^a   Jones, Cheri A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clark's nutcracker; Dipodomys ordii; Limber pine; Nocturnal rodents; Nucifraga columbiana; Peripheral population; Peromyscus maniculatus; Pinus flexilis; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

CACHING; ISOLATED POPULATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEED DISPERSAL; ZOOCHORY;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; PAWNEE NATIONAL GRASSLAND; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CORVIDAE; CRICETINAE; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS ORDII; HETEROMYIDAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PINACEAE; PINUS FLEXILIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 30744461827     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-12-4-519.1     Document Type: Article

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