Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) seeds are dispersed by seed-caching rodents

Ecoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 539-543

  Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a   Esque, Todd ^b   Haines, Dustin ^c   Garnett, Megan ^b   Waitman, Ben A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Joshua tree; Scatter hoarding; Seed caching; Seed dispersal; Yucca brevifolia

Indexed keywords

CACHING; GERMINATION; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

RODENTIA; YUCCA; YUCCA BREVIFOLIA;

EID: 33846329740     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[539:JTYBSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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