Effects of seed predators of different body size on seed mortality in bornean logged forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Hautier, Yann ^a   Saner, Philippe ^a   Philipson, Christopher ^a   Bagchi, Robert ^a   Ong, Robert C ^b   Hector, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; FOREST DYNAMICS; LOGGING; MACACA; MALAYSIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; TREE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT SEED; THEORETICAL MODEL;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEEDS; TREES;

EID: 77955352800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011651     Document Type: Article

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