Special Issue: Seed predation.

Published online
10 Dec 2008
Content type
Journal issue
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01575.x

Author(s)
Lewis, O. T. & Gripenberg, S.
Contact email(s)
owen.lewis@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Publication language
English

Abstract

This issue contains 4 papers focusing on the following topics: (i) insect seed predators and environmental change; (ii) limits of predation rates by the specialist seed-feeder Penthobruchus germaini on an invasive shrub; (iii) density-dependent predation of weed seeds in maize fields; and (iv) impact of an exotic earthworm on seed dispersal of an indigenous US weed.

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