Avian fruit ingestion differentially facilitates seed germination of four fleshy-fruited plant species of an Afrotropical forest

Plant Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-100

  Lehouck, Valérie ^a,b   Spanhove, Toon ^a,b,c   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Africa; Bird; Frugivory; Gut passage; Leptonychia usambarensis; Psychotria lauracea; Seed dispersal; Turraea holstii; Xymalos monospora

Indexed keywords

ANDROPADUS MILANJENSIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; LEPTONYCHIA; PSYCHOTRIA; PSYCHOTRIA LAURACEA; TURRAEA HOLSTII; XYMALOS MONOSPORA;

EID: 79955714219     PISSN: 20323913     EISSN: 20323921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2011.503     Document Type: Article

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