Granivorous birds as potentially important post-dispersal seed predators in a Brazilian forest fragment

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 417-423

  Pizo, Marco A ^a   Vieira, Emerson M ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Brazil; Croton priscus; Forest fragmentation; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; GRANIVORY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CROTON; CROTON PRISCUS; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444360027     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00336.x     Document Type: Article

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