How does Merendera montana (L.) Lange (Liliaceae) benefit from being consumed by mole-voles?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-181

  Gómez García, Daniel ^a   Azorín, José ^a   Giannoni, Stella M ^b   Borghi, Carlos E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alkaloid concentration; Animal plant interaction; Geophytes; Protocooperation; Subterranean rodents

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BURROWING ORGANISM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; LILIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MERENDERA; MERENDERA MONTANA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS DUODECIMCOSTATUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 3442884600     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000026325.93477.45     Document Type: Article

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