Dispersal modes of woody species from the Northern Western Ghats, India

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-67

  Tadwalkar, Medhavi D ^a,b,c   Joglekar, Amruta M ^a,b,c   Mhaskar, Monali ^a,b   Kanade, Radhika B ^b,c   Chavan, Bhanudas ^a   Watve, Aparna V ^d   Ganeshaiah, K N ^c,e   Patwardhan, Ankur A ^a,b  

^a ABASAHEB GARWARE COLLEGE   (India)

^b Swastishree Society   (India)

^c Western Ghats Bioresource Mapping Project of Department of Biotechnology   (India)

^d Biome   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Deciduous; Dispersal modes; Disturbance; Evergreen; Fruiting phenology; Northern Western Ghats; Phenology

Indexed keywords

ANEMOCHORY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; FRUITING; LEAF; MONSOON; PHENOLOGY; ZOOCHORY;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 80054112201     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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