Chemical defense and the persistence of pioneer plant seeds in the soil of a tropical cloud forest

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-93

  Veldman, Joseph W ^a,b   Greg Murray, K ^a   Hull, Adrienne L ^a   Mauricio Garcia C, J ^a,c   Mungall, William S ^a   Rotman, Garth B ^a   Plosz, Mitchell P ^a   McNamara, Laurie K ^a  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Organización para Estudios Tropicales OET   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Bocconia frutescens; Cecropia polyphlebia; Costa Rica; Guettarda poasana; Phytolacca rivinoides; Seed chemical defense; Seed demography; Seed predation; Soil seedbank; Urera elata; Witheringia meiantha

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CLOUD FOREST; PATHOGEN; PERSISTENCE; PLANT; PLANT EXTRACT; SEED BANK; SEED PREDATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE CLOUD FOREST RESERVE; PUNTARENAS;

ANOSTRACA; ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; ARTHROPODA; BOCCONIA; BOCCONIA FRUTESCENS; CECROPIA; CECROPIA POLYPHLEBIA; COSTA (OSTRACODE); GUETTARDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PAPAVERACEAE; PHYTOLACCA; PHYTOLACCA RIVINOIDES; PHYTOLACCACEAE; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM IRREGULARE; RUBIACEAE; SOLANACEAE; URERA; URTICACEAE; WITHERINGIA; WITHERINGIA MEIANTHA;

EID: 33846107434     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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