Incorporating density dependence into the directed-dispersal hypothesis

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1538-1548

  Spiegel, Orr ^a   Nathan, Ran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive models; Frugivory; Heterogeneous environments; Ideal free distribution; Nonrandom dispersal; Safe sites; Seed dispersal; Seed survival

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FITNESS; FRUGIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; SEED DISPERSAL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951798722     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1166.1     Document Type: Article

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