Effects of thinning on scatter-hoarding by rodents in temperate forest

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 182-190

  Zhang, Yifeng ^a   Yu, Jing ^a   Sichilima, Alfred M ^b   Wang, Weirui ^a   Lu, Jiqi ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Forest thinning; Hoarding behavior; Rodents; Seed fate; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APRICOT; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOREST; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORESTRY; FORESTS; PRUNUS ARMENIACA; RODENTIA; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 84965128660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12184     Document Type: Article

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