High regeneration capacity helps tropical seeds to counter rodent predation

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 997-1007

  Cao, Lin ^a,b   Xiao, Zhishu ^a   Wang, Zhenyu ^a,d   Guo, Cong ^b   Chen, Jin ^c   Zhang, Zhibin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Embryo removal; Hoarding behavior; Seed dispersal; Seed germination; Seed pruning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CACHING; DICOTYLEDON; EMBRYO; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GERMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RODENTIA; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SEEDS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

RODENTIA;

EID: 79960291847     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1908-1     Document Type: Article

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