The Interplay of Habitat and Seed Type on Scatterhoarding Behavior in a Fragmented Afromontane Forest Landscape

Biotropica

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 264-267

  Aliyu, Babale ^a,b,c   Adamu, Hammadu ^b   Moltchanova, Elena ^a   Forget, Pierre Michel ^d   Chapman, Hazel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Nigerian Montane Forest Project   (Nigeria)

^c GOMBE STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Afromontane forest; Conditional mutualisms; Diplochory; Rodents; Scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

CRICETOMYS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84899916503     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12110     Document Type: Article

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