Impact of habitat structure and fruit abundance on avian seed dispersal and fruit predation

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-354

  Albrecht, Jörg ^a   Neuschulz, Eike L ^a   Farwig, Nina ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frugivorous birds; Land use change; Plant animal interactions; Sorbus aucuparia

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; SORBUS; SORBUS AUCUPARIA;

EID: 84864913983     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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