The role of rodents in the seed fate of a thorny shrub in an ancient wood pasture

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-139

  Scheper, Jeroen ^a   Smit, Christian ^b,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nurse shrubs; Recruitment limitation; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Shifting mosaics; Wood pasture

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; FRUGIVORY; HERBIVORE; PASTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NETHERLANDS;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; AVES; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SPINOSA; RODENTIA;

EID: 79951936024     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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