The Spatial Distribution of Mistletoe in a Southern Indian Tropical Forest at Multiple Scales

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-57

  Rist, Lucy ^a   Uma Shaanker, R ^b,c   Ghazoul, Jaboury ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Dispersal; Fire; Frugivory; Loranthaceae; Parasite; Phyllanthus; Taxillus tomentosus

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRUGIVORY; HEMIPARASITE; HOST SELECTION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INFECTIVITY; MORTALITY; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDIA;

LORANTHACEAE; PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA; PHYLLANTHUS INDOFISCHERI; TAXILLUS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 78650747897     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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