Effectiveness of rodents as local seed dispersers of Holm oaks

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 529-537

  Gómez, José M ^a   Puerta Piñero, Carolina ^a   Schupp, Eugene W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acorn dispersal; Apodemus sylvaticus; Disperser effectiveness; Quercus ilex; Sciurus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN TREE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SHRUB;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RODENT; SOIL; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; QUERCUS; RODENTIA; SEEDS; SOIL; SPAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ILEX; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS VULGARIS;

EID: 41149144299     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0928-3     Document Type: Article

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