Testing the quick meal hypothesis: The effect of pulp on hoarding and seed predation of Hymenaea courbaril by red-rumped agoutis (Dasyprocta leporina)

Austral Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-98

  Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^a,b   Kubota, Umberto ^a   Gomes, Bruno Zacarias ^c   Fonseca, Rafael Luís ^a,b,d,e   Bottcher, Cláudia ^a   Galetti, Mauro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Biologia Da Conservação ^*  (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Centro de Referência Em Informação Ambiental CRIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Caching; Caviomorpha; Food hoarding; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

CACHING; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIOMORPHA; DASYPROCTA; DASYPROCTA LEPORINA; HYMENAEA COURBARIL; RODENTIA;

EID: 33644828796     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01554.x     Document Type: Article

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