Seed traits and taxonomic relationships determine the occurrence of mutualisms versus seed predation in a tropical forest rodent and seed dispersal system

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 309-319

  Wang, Zhenyu ^a,b   Cao, Lin ^a   Zhang, Zhibin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hoarding behavior; Mutualism; Predation; Seed dispersal; Seed trait

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CASTANOPSIS; FAGACEAE; LITHOCARPUS; RODENTIA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RAIN FOREST; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FORESTS; RAINFOREST; RODENTIA; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84922002810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12086     Document Type: Article

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