Picky hitch-hikers: Vector choice leads to directed dispersal and fat-tailed kernels in a passively dispersing mite

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1254-1264

  Fronhofer, Emanuel A ^a   Sperr, Ellen B ^b   Kreis, Anna ^a   Ayasse, Manfred ^b   Poethke, Hans Joachim ^a   Tschapka, Marco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; BEE; BEETLE; COLONIZATION; FLOWER VISITING; INBREEDING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITE; MONOCOTYLEDON; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; UNDERSTORY;

COSTA RICA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; CALYPTROGYNE GHIESBREGHTIANA; COLEOPTERA; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 84880507113     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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