The dispersal of vascular plants in a forest mosaic by a guild of mammalian herbivores

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-118

  Eycott, A E ^a,c   Watkinson, A R ^a   Hemami, M R ^a,b   Dolman, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonisation; Endozoochory; Fallow deer; Hare; Muntjac; Rabbit; Red deer; Roe deer

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; GUILD; HERBIVORE; MAMMAL; SEED DISPERSAL; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HARE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RABBIT; TREE;

ANIMALS; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HARES; RABBITS; SEEDS; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; ANIMALIA; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; DAMA; DAMA DAMA; LAGOMORPHA; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MAMMALIA; MUNTIACUS; MUNTIACUS REEVESI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TRACHEOPHYTA; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 35348838057     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0812-1     Document Type: Article

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