Viability of small seeds found in feces of the Central American tapir on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-62

  Capece, Paula I ^a   Aliaga Rossel, Enzo ^a,b   Jansen, Patrick A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Central America; Megafauna; Seed dispersal; Seed size; Tapir

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIET; ENDOSPERM; FECES; PANAMA; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DIET; ENDOSPERM; FECES; PANAMA; PERISSODACTYLA; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS;

EID: 84884758282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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