Cleaning associations between birds and herbivorous mammals in Brazil: Structure and complexity

Auk

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-43

  Sazima, Cristina ^a   Jordano, Pedro ^b   Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^c   Dos Reis, Sérgio F ^a   Sazima, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cleaner birds; Herbivorous mammal hosts; Interspecific interactions; Nestedness; Network organization

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; COMMENSALISM; ECTOPARASITE; HERBIVORE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM;

BRAZIL;

AVES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; TABANIDAE;

EID: 84858668753     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.11144     Document Type: Article

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