Seasonal variation in fleshy fruit use and seed dispersal by the Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) - Takahashi, Kazuaki; Shiota, Tadatoshi; Tamatani, Hiroo; Koyama, Masaru; Washitani, Izumi (Ecological research, 2008)
Keywords: Animal behavior; Autumn; Bears; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; birds; Deciduous forests; Dispersal; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Fleshy-fruited plants; Food plants; foraging; Foraging behavior; Forestry; frugivores; Fruit size; fruiting; Fruiting phenology; Fruits; Japan; Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus); Life Sciences; Note and Comment; Plant Sciences; Plant species; seasonal variation; Seasonal variations; Seed clump; Seed dispersal; Seeds; shrubs; Species composition; species diversity; summer; Trees; Ursus thibetanus; Zoology; Japan; Fleshy-fruited plants; Seed clump; Japanese black bear; ); Fruiting phenology; Seed dispersal; Fruit size