Forest fruit production is higher on sumatra than on borneo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Wich, Serge A ^a,b   Vogel, Erin R ^c   Larsen, Michael D ^d   Fredriksson, Gabriella ^e   Leighton, Mark ^f   Yeager, Carey P ^g   Brearley, Francis Q ^h   van Schaik, Carel P ^a   Marshall, Andrew J ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme PanEco YEL   (Indonesia)

^c THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f Great Ape World Heritage Species Project   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^h MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORNEO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; FOREST FRUIT; FOREST SOIL; FOREST STRUCTURE; FRUIT; FRUITING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HARVEST; INDONESIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PERIODICITY; SOIL PROPERTY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DENSITY; TREE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BORNEO; GEOGRAPHY; INDONESIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

EID: 79959621671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021278     Document Type: Article

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