Halting Regime Shifts in Floristically Intact Tropical Forests Deprived of Their Frugivores

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-157

  Brodie, Jedediah F ^a   Aslan, Clare E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Bushmeat; Fruit harvest; Overhunting; Plant demography; Population augmentation; Rainforest; Regime shifts; Reintroduction; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

FRUIT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; HARVESTING; RAINFOREST; REINTRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858002427     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00833.x     Document Type: Article

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