How plants manipulate the scatter-hoarding behaviour of seed-dispersing animals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1542, 2010, Pages 989-997

  Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Food handling; Masting; Scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CACHING; COEVOLUTION; COGENERATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MASTING; ODOR; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; TANNIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77950265004     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0205     Document Type: Review

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