Fruit availability and peccary frugivory in an isolated Atlantic forest fragment: Effects on peccary ranging behavior and habitat use

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-70

  Keuroghlian, Alexine ^a   Eaton, Donald P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Collared peccary; Euterpe edulis; Fruit scarcity; Syagrus romanzoffiana; Tropical forest fragment; White lipped peccary

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; ISOLATED POPULATION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PLATEAU; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; EUTERPE EDULIS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PECARI TAJACU; REPTILIA; SYAGRUS ROMANZOFFIANA; TAYASSU PECARI; UNGULATA;

EID: 38149072276     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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