Process-based functions for seed retention on animals: A test of improved descriptions of dispersal using multiple data sets

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1201-1208

  Bullock, James M ^a   Galsworthy, Stephen J ^b,c   Manzano, Pablo ^d   Poschlod, Peter ^e   Eichberg, Carsten ^f,g   Walker, Katherine ^a   Wichmann, Matthias C ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CERVIDAE; MUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79960644584     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19092.x     Document Type: Article

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