Does an ant-dispersed plant, Viola reichenbachiana, suffer from reduced seed dispersal under inundation disturbances?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-116

  Prinzing, Andreas ^a   Dauber, Jens ^b   Hammer, Edith ^c   Hammouti, Nasera ^c   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal plant mutualism; Behaviour; Demography; Forest herbs; Myrmecochory; Riparian forest; Seed dispersal motivation; Small scale disturbance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; VIOLA REICHENBACHIANA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 38949132562     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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