Trade-off between seed defensive traits and impacts on interaction patterns between seeds and rodents in forest ecosystems

Plant Ecology

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 253-265

  Zhang, Zhibin ^a   Wang, Zhenyu ^a,b   Chang, Gang ^c   Yi, Xianfeng ^b   Lu, Jiqi ^d   Xiao, Zhishu ^a   Zhang, Hongmao ^e   Cao, Lin ^f   Wang, Fusheng ^a   Li, Hongjun ^a   Yan, Chuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanxi Institute of Zoology   (China)

^d ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolution; Phylogenetic distance; Physical and chemical defense; Plant animal interactions; Trade off

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CACHING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EVOLUTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT; PREDATION; PROTEIN; RODENT; SEED; STARCH; TANNIN; TRADE-OFF;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84955328161     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-016-0566-0     Document Type: Article

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