The effect of feeding time on dispersal of Virola seeds by toucans determined from GPS tracking and accelerometers

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 625-631

  Kays, Roland ^a,b   Jansen, Patrick A ^b,c,d   Knecht, Elise M H ^c   Vohwinkel, Reinhard ^e   Wikelski, Martin ^b,f,g  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Avifaunistische Untersuchungen ^*  (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; GPS tracking; Regurgitation time; Seed dispersal kernel; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; DICOTYLEDON; FOREST DYNAMICS; FRUIT; GPS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOVEMENT; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PASSERINE; RIPENING; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RAMPHASTOS; VIROLA; VIROLA NOBILIS;

EID: 80955144439     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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