Epizoochory via the hooves - the European bison (Bison bonasus L.) as a dispersal agent of seeds in an open-forest-mosaic

Tuexenia

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-144

  Schulze, Kiowa Alraune ^a   Buchwald, Rainer ^b   Heinken, Thilo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diaspore; External dispersal; Large ungulate; Secondary seed dispersal; Trampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907272541     PISSN: 0722494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14471/2014.34.016     Document Type: Article

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