A Movement Ecology Approach to Study Seed Dispersal and Plant Invasion: An Overview and Application of Seed Dispersal by Fruit Bats

Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 101-119

  Tsoar, Asaf ^a   Shohami, David ^a   Nathan, Ran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Advances in modelling and statistical analysis; Advances in understanding dispersal; Allometric relationships generic model for animal seed dispersal; Biological invasions, entry, establishment and spread of non native species; Dispersal, or unidirectional movement of organism away from its home or place of birth; Elton, identifying humans' overriding role dispersal vector responsible; Fruit bats as long distance seed dispersers of native and alien species; Movement ecology approach seed dispersal and plant invasion; Nuts and bolts of invasion ecology; Tracking seed movement, away from source plant challenging

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959312259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329988.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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