Availability peak of caloric fruits coincides with energy-demanding seasons for resident and non-breeding birds in restinga, an ecosystem related to the Atlantic forest, Brazil

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 647-655

  Gomes, Verônica Souza da Mota ^a,b   Buckeridge, Marcos S ^c   Silva, Clóvis Oliveira ^c   Scarano, Fábio Rubio ^a,d   Araujo, Dorothy Sue Dunn ^a,e   Alves, Maria Alice S ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Pós graduação em Biodiversidade Vegetal e Meio Ambiente   (Brazil)

^d Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ^*  (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS JARDIM BOTÂNICO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Energy; Frugivory; Lipids; Pulp; Scrub vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; BIRD; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; LIPID; MOLT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SCRUB; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SUGAR;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES; CLUSIA HILARIANA; ERYTHROXYLUM; OCOTEA;

EID: 84755160995     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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