Cattle dung as vector of spreading seeds of exotic species in the Flooding Pampa grasslands (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-22

  Vignolio, Osvaldo R ^a   Fernández, Osvaldo N ^a  

^a Unidad Integrada Balcarce   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dung; Endozoochory; Forage; Grasslands; Seed dispersal; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BOS; CAREX; CYNODON DACTYLON; CYPERUS; JUNCUS;

EID: 77950256861     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/085.047.0102     Document Type: Article

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