Extremely long-distance seed dispersal by an overfished amazonian frugivore

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1723, 2011, Pages 3329-3335

  Anderson, Jill T ^a   Nuttle, Tim ^b   Rojas, Joe S Saldaña ^c   Pendergast, Thomas H ^d   Flecker, Alexander S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Red Ambiental Loretana   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colossoma macropomum; Dispersal kernel; Frugivorous fish; Movement ecology; Radiotelemetry; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COEVOLUTION; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT USE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MOBILITY; MOVEMENT; OVERFISHING; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEED DISPERSAL; SWAMP FOREST; TELEOST;

AMAZONIA;

AVES; CHARACIDAE; COLOSSOMA; COLOSSOMA MACROPOMUM; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 80053939376     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0155     Document Type: Article

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