Landscape-scale eco-evolutionary dynamics: Selection by seed predators and fire determine a major reproductive strategy

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1307-1316

  Talluto, Matt V ^a   Benkman, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

American red squirrel; Climate change; Cross scale interactions; Eco evolutionary dynamics; Fire; Lodgepole pine; Pinus contorta; Reproductive strategy; Seed predation; Serotiny; Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; USA; Yellowstone National Park

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; SELECTION; SEROTINY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRES; SCIURIDAE; SEEDS;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

PINUS CONTORTA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 84879596737     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2058.1     Document Type: Article

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