Lust for salt in the Western Amazon

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-9

  Dudley, Robert ^a,b   Kaspari, Michael ^c   Yanoviak, Stephen P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant; Decomposition; Geophagy; Herbivory; Licks; Litter; Sodium; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; BIRD; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOPHAGY; HERBIVORE; MAMMAL; RAINFOREST; SODIUM;

AMAZONIA;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855742856     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00818.x     Document Type: Article

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