Nutmeg-vertebrate interactions in the Asia-Pacific region: Importance of frugivores for seed dispersal in Myristicaceae

Tropical Conservation Science

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 608-636

  Kitamura, Shumpei ^a   Poonswad, Pilai ^b  

^a ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Endocomia; Gymnacranthera; Horsfieldia; Knema; Myristica; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLUMBA; ENDOCOMIA; GYMNACRANTHERA; HAPLORHINI; HORSFIELDIA; HYLOBATIDAE; KNEMA; MACACA; MAMMALIA; MYRISTICA; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS; MYRISTICACEAE; PONGO PYGMAEUS; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; TRACHYPITHECUS; VERTEBRATA; VIVERRIDAE;

EID: 84887561705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19400829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194008291300600503     Document Type: Review

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