Seed dispersal and predation in the endemic Atlantic rainforest palm Astrocaryum aculeatissimum across a gradient of seed disperser abundance

Ecological Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1187-1195

  Donatti, Camila I ^a   Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^b   Galetti, Mauro ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Compensation; Dasyprocta; Defaunation; Sciurus; Trinomys

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVERGREEN TREE; EXTINCTION; FRUGIVORY; MONOCOTYLEDON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

ATLANTIC FOREST; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; ASTROCARYUM; DASYPROCTA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS INGRAMI; TRINOMYS;

EID: 70350389545     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-009-0601-x     Document Type: Article

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