Seed Dispersal Processes in Australia's Tropical Rainforests

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 210-223

  Westcott, David A ^a,b   Dennis, Andrew J ^a,b   Bradford, Matt G ^a,b   Harrington, Graham N ^a,b   McKeown, Adam ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Frugivore functional groups; Frugivores of Australia's rainforests; Functional classification of dispersers; Keystone fruits; Seed dispersal in Australia's rainforests; Seed Dispersal Processes In Tropical Rainforests; Torresian imperial pigeons (Ducula bicolor) and metallic starlings (Aplonis metallica); Vertebrate seed dispersal in Wet Tropics and frugivore and granivore interactions; Wet Tropics fruits and fruiting phenology

Indexed keywords

FRUITS;

AUSTRALIA; FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION; TORRESIAN IMPERIAL PIGEONS (DUCULA BICOLOR) AND METALLIC STARLINGS (APLONIS METALLICA); TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WET TROPICS;

TROPICS;

EID: 70349817665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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