Natura Croatica, Vol. 8 No. 3, 1999.
Pregledni rad
Relationships between plants and Mediterranean lizards
Valentin Pérez-Mellado
; Department of Animal Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071-Salamanca, Spain
Anna Traveset
; Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Crtra. de Valldemossa, Km. 7'5, 07071-Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Sažetak
Different kinds of interactions between lizards and plants in the Mediterranean basin have been described. Lizards have shown to »use« plants as a refuge against predators, as a foraging site, as a thermal microhabitat or as a food resource. In the last case, they can either act as herbivores (+/– interaction, consuming vegetative and/or reproductive parts, and damaging the plant to a higher or lower degree) or as mutualists (+/+ interaction, by behaving as legitimate pollinators and/or seed dispersers).
Ključne riječi
Mediterranean lizards; Podarcis; Lacertidae; pollination; seed dispersal; mutualism; herbivory; foraging behaviour
Hrčak ID:
54841
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.9.1999.
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