Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12610-12615

  Jansen, Patrick A ^a,b,c   Hirsch, Ben T ^a,d   Emsens, Willem Jan ^b,e   Zamora Gutierrez, Veronica ^b,f   Wikelski, Martin ^a,g,h   Kays, Roland ^a,i,j  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

ⁱ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cache pilferage; Pleistocene extinctions; Seed predation; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTROCARYUM STANDLEYANUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIO TRANSMITTER; RAT; SEEDLING; SOIL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECOSYSTEM; RODENTIA; SEEDS; SOIL; TREES;

DASYPROCTA; DASYPROCTA PUNCTATA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84864521923     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205184109     Document Type: Article

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