The anomalous Kentucky coffeetree: Megafaunal fruit sinking to extinction?

Oecologia

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-226

  Zaya, David N ^a   Howe, Henry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Botanical anachronism; Gymnocladus dioicus; Megafaunal disclimax; Megafaunal fruit hypothesis; Seed dispersal syndromes

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FRUIT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HERBIVORY; LEGUME; LIFE HISTORY; LIGHT EFFECT; RARE SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; TOXIC MATERIAL; TREE;

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; HISTOLOGY; LEGUME; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FABACEAE; FRUIT; NORTH AMERICA; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

NORTH AMERICA;

BOS; ELEPHANTIDAE; FABACEAE; GYMNOCLADUS DIOICUS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 70349133429     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1372-3     Document Type: Review

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