Differences in diet between spider monkey groups living in forest fragments and continuous forest in Mexico

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-113

  Chaves, Óscar M ^a   Stoner, Kathryn E ^a   Arroyo Rodríguez, Víctor ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dietary flexibility; Food availability; Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Neotropical primates

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; EPIPHYTE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD LIMITATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PRIMATE; SEED DISPERSAL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHIAPAS; LACANDONA FOREST; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; BROSIMUM ALICASTRUM; HAPLORHINI; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; SPONDIAS;

EID: 79960473497     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00766.x     Document Type: Article

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