On the relative contributions of wind vs. animals to seed dispersal of four sierra Nevada pines

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1837-1849

  Wall, Stephen B Vander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of seed dispersal; Jeffrey pine; Lodgepole pine; Pinus contorta murrayana; Pinus jeffreyi; Pinus lambertiana; Pinus ponderosa ponderosa; Scatter hoarding; Seed fates; Sugar pine; Tamias amoenus; Two phased seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

CACHING; CONIFEROUS TREE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; PROPAGULE; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; WIND; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS CONTORTA MURRAYANA; PINUS JEFFREYI; PINUS LAMBERTIANA; PINUS PONDEROSA VAR. PONDEROSA; TAMIAS AMOENUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT SEED; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED STATES; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; NEVADA; PINUS; RODENTIA; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 54549114250     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0409.1     Document Type: Article

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