Does landscape structure affect resource tracking by avian frugivores in a fragmented Afrotropical forest?

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 789-799

  Lehouck, Valérie ^a,b   Spanhove, Toon ^a,b   Vangestel, Carl ^a   Cordeiro, Norbert J ^c,d   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^d ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONNECTIVITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL;

AVES;

EID: 70349675645     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05666.x     Document Type: Article

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