Extreme long-distance seed dispersal via sheep

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 244-248

  Manzano, Pablo ^a   Malo, Juan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEED DISPERSAL; SHEEP;

DAUCUS CAROTA; HORDEUM MURINUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; OVIS ARIES; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LAGOPUS; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; UNGULATA;

EID: 33744938658     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0244:ELSDVS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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