Removal of palm fruits and ecosystem engineering in palm stands by white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) and other frugivores in an isolated Atlantic Forest fragment

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1733-1750

  Keuroghlian, Alexine ^a   Eaton, Donald P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Collared peccary; Ecosystem engineer; Euterpe edulis; Exclusion experiment; Frugivory; Fruit removal; Syagrus romanzoffiana; Tropical forest fragment; White lipped peccary

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; EVERGREEN TREE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT SELECTION; MONOCOTYLEDON; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; UNGULATE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; SOUTH AMERICA;

AGOUTI PACA; EUTERPE EDULIS; MAMMALIA; PECARI TAJACU; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS INGRAMI; SYAGRUS ROMANZOFFIANA; TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS; TAYASSU PECARI;

EID: 67649220360     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9554-6     Document Type: Article

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