Seed dissemination by frugivorous birds from forest fragments to adjacent pastures on the western slope of Volcán Barva, Costa Rica

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 569-575

  Barrantes, Gilbert ^a   Pereira, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Natural regeneration; Ornithocory

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CATTLE; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FECES; FRUIT; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT SEED; SOIL; TREE; VOLCANO;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CATTLE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; FECES; FRUIT; GERMINATION; SEEDS; SOIL; TREES; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0036595977     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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