Nonredundancy in the dispersal network of a generalist tropical forest tree

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1492-1502

  McConkey, Kim R ^a   Brockelman, Warren Y ^b,c  

^a BIOTEC Central Research Unit ^*  (India)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Complementary; Frugivory; Gibbon; Macaque; Mast fruiting; Prunus javanica; Seed dispersal effectiveness; Seedling recruitment; Thailand

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MUTUALISM; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRIMATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; KHAO YAI NATIONAL PARK; THAILAND;

ANTHRACOCEROS ALBIROSTRIS; AVES; HYLOBATES LAR; HYLOBATIDAE; MACACA LEONINA; PRUNUS; ROSACEAE; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 79960453438     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1255.1     Document Type: Article

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