Changes in tree reproductive traits reduce functional diversity in a fragmented Atlantic forest landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Girão, Luciana Coe ^a   Lopes, Ariadna Valentina ^a   Tabarelli, Marcelo ^a   Bruna, Emilio M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FLY; FOREST; GENETIC TRAIT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; REPRODUCTION; TREES;

EID: 41249100408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000908     Document Type: Article

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