Antelope mating strategies facilitate invasion of grasslands by a woody weed

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1441-1452

  Jadeja, Shivani ^a,b   Prasad, Soumya ^c   Quader, Suhel ^a,d   Isvaran, Kavita ^c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^d NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACILITATION; FRUGIVORY; GRASSLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEED DISPERSAL; WOODY PLANT;

ANTILOPE; ANTILOPE CERVICAPRA; PROSOPIS JULIFLORA;

EID: 84890856373     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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