Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents in arid environments

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1300-1309

  Beck, Maurie J ^a,b   Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Desert peach; Mutualism; Prunus andersonii; scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Seed caching rodents; Seedling establishment

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CACHING; CANOPY; FRUGIVORY; HARVESTING; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

AMMOSPERMOPHILUS; AMMOSPERMOPHILUS LEUCURUS; ANIMALIA; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS PANAMINTINUS; HETEROMYIDAE; PEROGNATHUS PARVUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS ANDERSONII; PRUNUS PERSICA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77958174748     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01716.x     Document Type: Article

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