Domestic goat grazing disturbance enhances tree seed removal and caching by small rodents in a warm-temperate deciduous forest in China

Wildlife Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 610-616

  Zhang, Hongmao ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^c,d   Zhang, Zhibin ^c  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Forest regeneration; Large herbivores grazing; Rodent abundance; Seed survival; Seedbank

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CACHING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GOAT; GRANIVORY; GRAZING PRESSURE; MASTING; REGENERATION; RODENT; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; QUERCUS WUTAISHANICA; RODENTIA;

EID: 71049116413     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR09001     Document Type: Article

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