Scale-dependent diversity effects of seed dispersal by a wild herbivore in fragmented grasslands

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 305-313

  Auffret, Alistair G ^a   Plue, Jan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Endozoochory; Landscape ecology; Long distance dispersal; Roe deer

Indexed keywords

DEER; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERBIVORE; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD POPULATION;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 84901413967     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2897-7     Document Type: Article

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