Contrasting patterns of seed dispersal between alien mammals and native lizards in a declining plant species

Plant Ecology

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 657-667

  Celedón Neghme, Constanza ^a   Traveset, Anna ^b   Calviño Cancela, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balearic Islands; Cneorum tricoccon; Mutualism; Saurochory; Seed dispersal disruption; Seedling recruitment

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EXTINCTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; LIZARD; MUSTELID; MUTUALISM; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; ZOOCHORY;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

CNEORUM TRICOCCON; MAMMALIA; MARTES MARTES; PODARCIS LILFORDI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84876432198     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-013-0197-7     Document Type: Article

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