Predicting the long-term effects of hunting on plant species composition and diversity in tropical forests

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 372-384

  Muller Landau, Helene C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defaunation; Diversity maintenance; Extinction risk; Herbivory; Hunting; Population regulation; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Trophic cascades; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXTINCTION RISK; HERBIVORY; HUNTING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPICAL FOREST;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247354213     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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