Neighborhood effects on seed dispersal by frugivores: Testing theory with a mistletoe-marsupial system in Patagonia

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 741-748

  Morales, Juan Manuel ^a   Rivarola, Maria Daniela ^a,c   Amico, Guillermo ^a   Carlo, Tomas A ^b  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Dispersal kernel; Dromiciops glioroides; Fruit removal; Tristerix corymbosus

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARBOREAL SPECIES; CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; DICOTYLEDON; FRUGIVORY; FRUITING; MARSUPIAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; MARSUPIAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; VISCUM ALBUM;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; MARSUPIALIA; MISTLETOE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SEEDS;

PATAGONIA;

ANIMALIA; DROMICIOPS; METATHERIA; TRISTERIX CORYMBOSUS;

EID: 84861362165     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0935.1     Document Type: Article

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