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Barriers to seed and seedling survival of once-common Hawaiian palms: the role of invasive rats and ungulates

Mammalian herbivores can limit plant recruitment and affect forest composition. Loulu palms (Pritchardia spp.) once dominated many lowland ecosystems in Hawai‘i, and non-native rats (Rattus spp.), ungulates (e.g. pigs Sus scrofa, goats Capra hircus) and humans have been proposed as major causes of t...

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Autores principales: Shiels, Aaron B., Drake, Donald R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4497476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26019231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plv057