TY - JOUR
T1 - The avian dispersal of olives Olea europaea
T2 - Implications for Australia
AU - Spennemann, D. H.R.
AU - Richard Allen, L.
PY - 2000/1/1
Y1 - 2000/1/1
N2 - Around the Mediterranean olives are an important food source for birds, and are now emerging as a significant component of the diet of some Australian frugivores. Attempts over the past 200 years to establish an olive oil industry in Australia have led to many neglected olive groves which have become havens for frugivorous birds. Worldwide, olives have proved to be a successful invader of disturbed lands, with birds as the principal seed vectors. A proliferation of new olive orchards in the 1990s and the effect of naturalisation on the size of olive drupes has the potential, with help from the avian fauna, to accelerate the dispersal of this woody weed in Australia.
AB - Around the Mediterranean olives are an important food source for birds, and are now emerging as a significant component of the diet of some Australian frugivores. Attempts over the past 200 years to establish an olive oil industry in Australia have led to many neglected olive groves which have become havens for frugivorous birds. Worldwide, olives have proved to be a successful invader of disturbed lands, with birds as the principal seed vectors. A proliferation of new olive orchards in the 1990s and the effect of naturalisation on the size of olive drupes has the potential, with help from the avian fauna, to accelerate the dispersal of this woody weed in Australia.
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U2 - 10.1071/MU9854
DO - 10.1071/MU9854
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034538561
SN - 0158-4197
VL - 100
SP - 264
EP - 273
JO - Emu
JF - Emu
IS - 4
ER -
