Seed consumption and dispersal of ant-dispersed plants by slugs

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 681-693

  Türke, Manfred ^a   Heinze, Eric ^a   Andreas, Kerstin ^a   Svendsen, Sarah M ^a   Gossner, Martin M ^a   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arion; Beech forest; Gastropodochory; Granivores; Myrmecochores

Indexed keywords

ANT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GASTROPOD; GRANIVORY; OVERWINTERING; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SLUG; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIGESTION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GASTROPOD; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DIGESTION; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GASTROPODA; GERMINATION; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ANEMONE; ANEMONE NEMOROSA; ARION; ASARUM; ASARUM EUROPAEUM; FAGUS; FORMICIDAE; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77953684308     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1612-6     Document Type: Article

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