Empty Seeds Are Not Always Bad: Simultaneous Effect of Seed Emptiness and Masting on Animal Seed Predation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Perea, Ramón ^a   Venturas, Martin ^a   Gil, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIRD; ELM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MASTING; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOCARPY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SHRUB; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RODENTIA; SEEDS; TREES; ULMUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RODENTIA; ULMUS; ULMUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84878914765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065573     Document Type: Article

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