Effects of the physical environment and primate gut passage on the early establishment of ampelocera hottlei standley in rain forest fragments

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 459-466

  González Di Pierro, Ana M ^a   Benítez Malvido, Julieta ^a   Méndez Toribio, Moisés ^a   Zermeño, Isela ^a   Arroyo Rodríguez, Víctor ^a   Stoner, Kathryn E ^a   Estrada, Alejandro ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alouatta pigra; Dispersal; Fragmentation; Micro environmental conditions; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GERMINATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; LIGHT EFFECT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PRIMATE; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNDERSTORY;

CHIAPAS; LACANDONA FOREST; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA CARAYA; ALOUATTA PIGRA; AMPELOCERA HOTTLEYI; PRIMATES; ULMACEAE;

EID: 79960143608     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00734.x     Document Type: Article

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