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Species, Diaspore Volume and Body Mass Matter in Gastropod Seed Feeding Behavior

BACKGROUND: Seed dispersal of ant-dispersed plants (myrmecochores) is a well studied ecosystem function. Recently, slugs have been found to act as seed dispersers of myrmecochores. The aim of our study was to (1) further generalize the finding that gastropods feed on seeds of myrmecochores and hence...

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Autores principales: Türke, Manfred, Weisser, Wolfgang W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23844239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068788