A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 662-670

  Orrock, John L ^a   Borer, Elizabeth T ^b   Brudvig, Lars A ^c   Firn, Jennifer ^d   Macdougall, Andrew S ^e   Melbourne, Brett A ^f   Yang, Louie H ^g   Baker, Dirk V ^a   Bar Massada, Avi ^h   Crawley, Michael J ⁱ   Damschen, Ellen I ^a   Davies, Kendi F ^f   Gruner, Daniel S ^j   Kay, Adam D ^k   Lind, Eric ^b   Mcculley, Rebecca L ^l   Seabloom, Eric W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j Bldg 142   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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Author keywords

AET; Annual actual evapotranspiration; Climate; Granivory; North America; Plant consumer interactions; Precipitation; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRANIVORY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVENA SATIVA;

EID: 84924267442     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12451     Document Type: Article

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