Consumption of macro-fungi by invertebrates in a Mexican tropical cloud forest: Do fruit body characteristics matter?

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 603-617

  Guevara, Roger ^a,b   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agaricales; Basidiomycota; Boletales; Cantherellales; El Triunfo; Evergreen cloud forest; Fungivory; Mycophagy; Russulales

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032694655     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467499001042     Document Type: Article

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