Improved recruitment of a lemur-dispersed tree in Malagasy dry forests after the demise of vertebrates in forest fragments

Oecologia

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-316

  Dausmann, K H ^a,b   Glos, J ^b   Linsenmair, K E ^a   Ganzhorn, J U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exclosure experiments; Fragmentation; Madagascar; Regeneration; Seed dispersal and predation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRY FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PRIMATE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

ANIMALIA; APHAENOGASTER SWAMMERDAMI; FORMICIDAE; LEMUR; LOGANIACEAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; STREPSIRHINI; STRYCHNOS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48149084290     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1070-6     Document Type: Article

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