Forest fragmentation and selective logging have inconsistent effects on multiple animal-mediated ecosystem processes in a tropical forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Schleuning, Matthias ^a,b,c   Farwig, Nina ^d   Peters, Marcell K ^e,f   Bergsdorf, Thomas ^e   Bleher, Bärbel ^a   Brandl, Roland ^d   Dalitz, Helmut ^g   Fischer, Georg ^e   Freund, Wolfram ^e   Gikungu, Mary W ^h   Hagen, Melanie ^i,j   Garcia, Francisco Hita ^e   Kagezi, Godfrey H ^d   Kaib, Manfred ^k   Kraemer, Manfred ⁱ   Lung, Tobias ^l   Naumann, Clas M ^e   Schaab, Gertrud ^l   Templin, Mathias ^a,b,c   Uster, Dana ^g   Wägele, J Wolfgang ^e   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a,b,c,m   more..

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

ⁱ BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^l KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^m GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LOGGING; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATION RISK; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; AVES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 81155134285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027785     Document Type: Article

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