Selection, caching, and consumption of hardwood seeds by forest rodents: Implications for restoration of American chestnut

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 473-481

  Blythe, Rita M ^a   Lichti, Nathanael I ^a   Smyser, Timothy J ^a   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Castanea dentata; Hickory; Oak; Reintroduction; Scatter hoarding rodents

Indexed keywords

CACHING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRANIVORY; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

UNITED STATES;

AESCULUS HYBRIDA; CARYA; CASTANEA; CASTANEA DENTATA; CASTANEA MOLLISSIMA; JUGLANS NIGRA; MUS; PTEROMYINI; QUERCUS RUBRA; RODENTIA; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS NIGER;

EID: 84937074315     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12204     Document Type: Article

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