Invertebrate Seed Predators are not all the Same: Seed Predation by Bruchine and Scolytine Beetles Affects Palm Recruitment in Different Ways

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-11

  Dracxler, Caroline M ^a   Pires, Alexandra S ^a,b   Fernandez, Fernando A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allagoptera; Animal plant interactions; Arecaceae; Astrocaryum; Atlantic Forest; Brazil; Janzen Connell model; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; HOST SPECIFICITY; MONOCOTYLEDON; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED PREDATION;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

ALLAGOPTERA; ANIMALIA; ARECACEAE; ASTROCARYUM; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650753444     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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