Field evidence for the potential of waterbirds as dispersers of aquatic organisms

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 252-258

  Charalambidou, Iris ^a   Santamaría, Luis ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anas crecca; Anas platyrhynchos; Chara; Chenopodium; Daphnia; Eleocharis; Fulica atra; Plant dispersal; Scirpus; Seed dispersal; Zoochory

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AQUATIC PLANT; DISPERSION; FECES; INVERTEBRATE; WATERFOWL;

DENMARK; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ALGAE; ANAS CRECCA; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES; CHARA; CHARALES; CHENOPODIUM; DAPHNIA; ELEOCHARIS; FULICA ATRA; INVERTEBRATA; SCIRPUS;

EID: 33749501974     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/2     Document Type: Article

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