Predator or disperser? A test of indigenous fruit preference of alien rats (Rattus rattus) on Nishi-jima (Ogasawara Islands)

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-218

  Abe, Tetsuto ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alien predator; Frugivory; Fruit size; Oceanic island; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PREDATOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

LIVISTONA; NEOLITSEA SERICEA; OCHROSIA; PANDANUS; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA;

EID: 35448931085     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC070213     Document Type: Article

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