Anomalous, extreme weather disrupts obligate seed dispersal mutualism: Snow in a subtropical forest ecosystem

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2867-2877

  Zhou, Youbing ^a,b,c   Newman, Chris ^b   Chen, Jin ^c   Xie, Zongqiang ^a   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate variability; Ecological interaction; Extreme weather event; Hovenia dulcis; Mutualism; Resilience; Seed dispersal; Snowstorm

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIETARY SHIFT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HERBIVORE; MAMMAL; MUTUALISM; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; OMNIVORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL; SNOWSTORM; SUBTROPICAL REGION; UNGULATE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTREME WEATHER EVENT; HOVENIA DULCIS; PLANT SEED; RESILIENCE; SEED DISPERSAL; SNOW STORM; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WEATHER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTION; EXTREME WEATHER EVENT; HOVENIA DULCIS; MUTUALISM; RESILIENCE; SEED DISPERSAL; SNOWSTORM;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; SEEDS; SNOW; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WEATHER;

CHINA;

AVES; HOVENIA DULCIS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84881549351     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12245     Document Type: Article

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