Forest rodents provide directed dispersal of Jeffrey pine seeds

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 675-687

  Briggs, Jennifer S ^a,b   Wall, Stephen B Vander ^a   Jenkins, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching behavior; Conifer forest; Directed dispersal; Jeffrey pine; Lake tahoe basin; Peromyscus maniculatus; Rodents; Seeds; Sierra Nevada; Spermophilus lateralis; Tamias amoenus; Tamias quadrimaculatus

Indexed keywords

CACHING; COEVOLUTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; GRANIVORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SCIURIDAE; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEVADA; PEROMYSCUS; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SCIURIDAE; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

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

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PINUS JEFFREYI; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS; TAMIAS AMOENUS; TAMIAS QUADRIMACULATUS;

EID: 63849282745     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0542.1     Document Type: Article

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