Linking fruit traits to variation in predispersal vertebrate seed predation, insect seed predation, and pathogen attack

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2131-2140

  Beckman, Noelle G ^a,b,c   Muller Landau, Helene C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit development; Fruit morphology; Germination; Janzen Connell effects; Natural enemies; Panama; Plant traits; Predispersal seed mortality; Seed survival

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE;

CANOPY; COEXISTENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGICIDE; GERMINATION; INSECT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; METAZOAN; MORTALITY; NATURAL ENEMY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; GERMINATION; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT SEED; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GERMINATION; INSECTS; PANAMA; PLANT DISEASES; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)]; PANAMA [PANAMA (PRV)];

ANACARDIUM EXCELSUM; CASTILLA ELASTICA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054793654     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2378.1     Document Type: Article

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