Long-term demographic consequences of a seed dispersal disruption

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1741, 2012, Pages 3298-3303

  Traveset, Anna ^a   González Varo, Juan P ^b   Valido, Alfredo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Cneorum tricoccon; Islands; Mutualisms; Saurochory; Seed disperser extinction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FRUGIVORY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MUTUALISM; PERSISTENCE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RELICT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SHRUB;

CNEORUM TRICOCCON; MAMMALIA; RUTACEAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863876467     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0535     Document Type: Article

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