Large seeds, extinct vectors and contemporary ecology: Testing dispersal in a locally distributed cycad, Macrozamia lucida (Cycadales)

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 592-600

  Snow, E L ^a   Walter, G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYMNOSPERM; MAMMAL; SEED; SEED DISPERSAL; ZOOCHORY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ANIMALIA; CYCADALES; CYCADOPSIDA; MACROZAMIA LUCIDA; MAMMALIA; PHALANGERIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS FUSCIPES; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 34848825363     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT07009     Document Type: Article

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