Potential for ants and vertebrate predators to shape seed-dispersal dynamics of the invasive thistles Cirsium arvense and Carduus nutans in their introduced range (North America)

Plant Ecology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 291-301

  Alba Lynn, Christina ^a   Henk, Shanna ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Elaiosome; Mutualism; Myrmecochory; Seed dispersal; Vertebrate predators

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOCHORY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED PREDATION; VERTEBRATE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARDUUS; CARDUUS NUTANS; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956012846     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9757-2     Document Type: Article

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