The effect of within-year variation in acorn crop size on seed harvesting by avian hoarders

Oecologia

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 97-106

  Pesendorfer, Mario B ^a   Koenig, Walter D ^a,b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Masting; Predator dispersal hypothesis; Scatter hoarding; Species interactions; Zoochory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CACHING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CROP; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; PASSERINE; PREDATOR; SEED; SEED PRODUCTION; SIMULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOCHORY;

ANIMALIA; APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; AVES; MELANERPES FORMICIVORUS; QUERCUS LOBATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; DIET; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; DIET; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERMINATION; QUERCUS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84955271516     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3557-x     Document Type: Article

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