Diversity of regenerating plants and seed dispersal in two canopy trees from Colombian Amazon forests with different hunting pressure

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1531-1542

  Zambrano, Victoria Andrea Barrera ^a   Moncada, Jenny Zambrano ^a   Stevenson, Pablo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colonization hypothesis; Density compensation; Janzen connell hypothesis; Plant diversity; Primate communities; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

APEIBA ASPERA; EMBRYOPHYTA; HYMENAEA; HYMENAEA OBLONGIFOLIA; LAGOTHRIX; LAGOTHRIX LAGOTRICHA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYMENAEA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PLATYRRHINI; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COLOMBIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYMENAEA; PLATYRRHINI; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 70449700303     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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