Small rodents trading off forest gaps for scatter-hoarding differs between seed species

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 379, Issue , 2016, Pages 226-231

  Yang, Yueqin ^a   Zhang, Mingming ^a,b   Yi, Xianfeng ^a,c  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GANSU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Forest gap; Pilferage risk; Predation risk; Seed dispersal; Seed profitability; Tradeoff

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; MAMMALS; REFORESTATION; SITE SELECTION;

CACHE PLACEMENT; FOREST GAP; HABITAT STRUCTURES; NATURAL REGENERATION; PREDATION RISK; QUERCUS MONGOLICA; SEED DISPERSAL; TRADEOFF;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; CACHING; CANOPY GAP; DECIDUOUS TREE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REGENERATION; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SITE SELECTION;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; JUGLANS MANDSHURICA; QUERCUS MONGOLICA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84984614714     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.08.005     Document Type: Article

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