Seed dispersal by a frugivorous marsupial shapes the spatial scale of a mistletoe population

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-229

  García, Daniel ^a   Rodríguez Cabal, Mariano A ^b   Amico, Guillermo C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dromiciops gliroides; Fruit resource tracking; Principal coordinates analysis of neighbour matrices; Recruitment; Southern Argentina; Spatial patchiness; Tristerix corymbosus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FRUGIVORY; MARSUPIAL; PATCHINESS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEED DISPERSAL; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

DROMICIOPS GLIROIDES; METATHERIA; TRISTERIX CORYMBOSUS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 60049098424     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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