Estimating and comparing food availability for tree-seed predators in typical pulsed-resource systems: Alpine conifer forests

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-267

  Salmaso, F ^a   Molinari, A ^a   Di Pierro, E ^a   Ghisla, A ^a   Martinoli, A ^a   Preatoni, D ^b   Serino, G ^b   Tosi, G ^b   Bertolino, S ^b   Wauters, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine conifers; Cone production; Forest composition; Seed productivity; Seed energy content; Seed nutrient composition

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 74949108475     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500902722451     Document Type: Article

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