Vector activity and propagule size affect dispersal potential by vertebrates

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-109

  van Leeuwen, Casper H A ^a,b   Tollenaar, Marthe L ^c   Klaassen, Marcel ^a,d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digestion; Endozoochory; Metabolic rate; Physiology; Retention time

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DIGESTIBILITY; DISPERSAL; GASTROPOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; META-ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PROPAGULE; RETENTION; SHELL; SNAIL; SURVIVAL; WADER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; DEFECATION; DUCK; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROPOD; SURVIVAL; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; DEFECATION; DUCKS; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROPODA; SURVIVAL; SWIMMING;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANIMALIA; AVES; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865607705     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2293-0     Document Type: Article

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