Moderate Human Disturbance of Rain Forest Alters Composition of Fruiting Plant and Bird Communities

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 427-436

  Lefevre, Kara L ^a   Sharma, Sapna ^a,b   Rodd, F Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Forest conservation; Frugivory; Guilds; Plant bird interactions; Trinidad and Tobago; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUGIVORY; GUILD; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; STAND STRUCTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

TOBAGO; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

AVES;

EID: 84860597929     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00809.x     Document Type: Article

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