Vertebrate herbivory impacts seedling recruitment more than niche partitioning or density-dependent mortality

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 554-564

  Clark, C J ^a,b   Poulsen, J R ^a,b   Levey, D J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congo Basin; Density dependent mortality; Herbivory; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Niche differentiation; Seed predation; Seedling recruitment; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GENERALIST; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; NICHE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONGO; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CONGO; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SOIL; TREES; VERTEBRATES;

CONGO BASIN;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860262578     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0894.1     Document Type: Article

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