Upward movement of buried seeds: Another ecological role of dung beetles promoting seedling establishment

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 409-417

  Santos Heredia, Carolina ^a,b   Andresen, Ellen ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Lacandon rain forest; Scarabaeinae; seed dynamics; seed fate; soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BURIED STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MOVEMENT; RELOCATION; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 84905442094     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467414000376     Document Type: Article

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