Primate species richness is determined by plant productivity: Implications for conservation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 13023-13027

  Kay, Richard F ^a   Madden, Richard H ^a   Van Schaik, Carel ^a,b   Higdon, David ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Litterfall; Neotropical forests; Platyrrhini; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FOREST; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SPECIES; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS; PRIMATES; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 0030717555     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.24.13023     Document Type: Article

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