Seabirds as adhesive seed dispersers of alien and native plants in the oceanic Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2787-2801

  Aoyama, Yukiko ^a   Kawakami, Kazuto ^b   Chiba, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alien species; Epizoochory; Island flora; Long distance dispersal; Oceanic islands; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND; NATIVE SPECIES; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEABIRD; ZOOCHORY;

BONIN ISLANDS; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

AVES;

EID: 84866107513     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0336-9     Document Type: Article

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