Functional extinctions of bird pollinators cause plant declines

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6020, 2011, Pages 1019-1020

  Sekercioglu, Cagan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT LOSS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MUTUALISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION;

BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS;

EID: 79952048552     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1202389     Document Type: Review

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