Mountain-climbing bears protect cherry species from global warming through vertical seed dispersal

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2016, Pages R315-R316

  Naoe, Shoji ^a   Tayasu, Ichiro ^b,c   Sakai, Yoichiro ^d   Masaki, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuki ^e   Nakajima, Akiko ^e   Sato, Yoshikazu ^e,f   Yamazaki, Koji ^g,h   Kiyokawa, Hiroki ⁱ   Koike, Shinsuke ^j  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d LAKE BIWA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^h Ibaraki Nature Museum   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^j TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; BEAR; CLASSIFICATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SEASON; SEED DISPERSAL; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; GLOBAL WARMING; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEASONS; SEED DISPERSAL; TEMPERATURE; URSIDAE;

EID: 84964978170     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.002     Document Type: Letter

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