The role of dung beetles as a secondary seed disperser after dispersal by frugivore mammals in a temperate deciduous forest

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-81

  Koike, Shinsuke ^a   Morimoto, Hideto ^a   Kozakai, Chinatsu ^a   Arimoto, Isao ^a   Soga, Masashi ^a   Yamazaki, Koji ^b   Koganezawa, Masaaki ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Ibaraki Nature Museum   (Japan)

^c UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asiatic black bear; Endozoochory; Fleshy fruit; Phelotrupes auratus; Seed fate; Ursus thibetanus

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BEETLE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; GERMINATION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATION; SEED DISPERSAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

JAPAN;

COLEOPTERA; MAMMALIA; ONTHOPHAGUS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS GRAYANA; PRUNUS JAMASAKURA; PRUNUS VERECUNDA; SWIDA CONTROVERSA; URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS THIBETANUS; VITIS; VITIS COIGNETIAE;

EID: 84860805945     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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