Effects of frugivore preferences and habitat heterogeneity on seed rain: A multi-scale analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Rodríguez Pérez, Javier ^a,b   Larrinaga, Asier R ^a   Santamaría, Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFECATION; EPHEDRA; EPHEDRA FRAGILIS; FRUGIVORE; HABITAT; HOME RANGE; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PODARCIS LILFORDI; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GERMINATION; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; EPHEDRA FRAGILIS; PODARCIS LILFORDI; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EPHEDRA; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GERMINATION; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LINEAR MODELS; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 84858390277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033246     Document Type: Article

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