Effects of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) logging on small mammal communities, habitat structure, and seed predation in the southeastern Amazon Basin

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 206, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 381-398

  Lambert, Thomas D ^a,c   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Zimmerman, Barbara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Amazon; Forest structure; Logging; Mahogany; Seed predation; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

FOOD RESOURCES; PEANUT SEEDS; TIMBER SPECIES;

ECOLOGY; FOOD PRODUCTS; FRUITS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); SEED;

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LOGGING (TIMBER); SEED PREDATION; SMALL MAMMAL;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FRUITS; LOGGING; SEEDS;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; RODENTIA; SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 11844287718     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.11.012     Document Type: Article

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