The primate community of cachoeira (brazilian amazonia): A model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ramdarshan, Anusha ^a   Alloing Séguier, Thomas ^a   Merceron, Gildas ^b   Marivaux, Laurent ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAZIL; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; CHIROPOTES SATANAS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL DEVICE; DENTAL MICROWEAR; DIETARY INTAKE; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PITHECIA PITHECIA; PLANT LEAF; PRIMATE; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS MIDAS; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER MONKEY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; ATELES; ATELES PANISCUS; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; CHIROPOTES; CHIROPOTES SATANAS; PITHECIA; PITHECIA PITHECIA; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS; SAGUINUS MIDAS; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAZIL; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FRUIT; PRIMATES;

EID: 80555148817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027392     Document Type: Article

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