Flying vs. climbing: Factors controlling arboreal seed removal in oak-beech forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1251-1257

  Perea, Ramón ^a   Miguel, Alfonso San ^a   Gil, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fagus sylvatica; Foragers density; Quercus; Removal speed; Seed infestation; Seed size

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SPECIES; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; BEECH STAND; BEECH TREES; DEAD TREES; EUROPAEA; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FORAGERS DENSITY; GENE FLOWS; GREAT TIT; HIGH REMOVAL RATES; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OAK BARK; OAK TREE; PARUS MAJOR; QUERCUS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED REMOVAL; SEED SIZE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TREE REGENERATION;

GENES; MAMMALS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REFORESTATION;

SEED;

ABUNDANCE; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTHROPOD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN FOREST; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE FLOW; NUTRITION; PASSERINE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; REGENERATION; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; STAND STRUCTURE;

EXTRACTIVES; FAGUS SYLVATICA; GENES; MAMMALS; PLANTS; QUERCUS; REFORESTATION; SEEDS;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTHROPODA; AVES; CORVIDAE; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; GARRULUS GLANDARIUS; HEXAPODA; PARUS MAJOR; QUERCUS; RODENTIA; SITTA EUROPAEA; SITTIDAE;

EID: 79960579284     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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