Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1611, 2007, Pages 799-808

  Kissling, W Daniel ^a,b   Rahbek, Carsten ^c   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Virtual Institute Macroecology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Africa; Coevolution; Community assembly; Macroecology; Plant frugivore interactions; Spatial autoregressive model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; COEVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MACROECOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; COEVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ENERGY; FICUS; FRUGIVORE; FRUIT; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FICUS; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247208705     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0311     Document Type: Article

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