Palms, peccaries and perturbations: Widespread effects of small-scale disturbance in tropical forests

BMC Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Queenborough, Simon A ^a   Metz, Margaret R ^b   Wiegand, Thorsten ^c   Valencia, Renato ^d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANGIOSPERM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; MORTALITY; PIG; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

ARECACEAE; TAYASSUIDAE;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MYRISTICACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ARECACEAE; ARTIODACTYLA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MYRISTICACEAE; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84858324840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-12-3     Document Type: Article

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