The spatial scale of plant-animal interactions: Effects of resource availability and habitat structure

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-121

  García, Daniel ^a   Zamora, Regino ^b   Amico, Guillermo C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Laboratorio Ecotono   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Cantabrian forest; Fleshy fruited plants; Frugivory by birds; Habitat availability; Mediterranean shrubland; Northern Spain; Patagonian forest; Patchiness; Principal coordinates of neighbor matrices (PCNM); Resource tracking; Scale dependence; Seed predation by rodents; Southern Spain

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PATCHINESS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION RISK; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SHRUBLAND; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARGENTINA; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RODENTIA;

EID: 79955369155     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0470.1     Document Type: Article

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