Cultivated walnut trees showed earlier but not final advantage over its wild relatives in competing for seed dispersers

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 12-25

  Zhang, Hongmao ^a,b   Chu, Wei ^a   Zhang, Zhibin ^b  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

cultivation; plant rodent mutualism; seed dispersal; seed trait; stage dependent dispersal

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; WALNUT;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; JUGLANS; MALE; RODENTIA; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS;

EID: 85010441002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12242     Document Type: Article

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