Plant-frugivore networks are less specialized and more robust at forest-farmland edges than in the interior of a tropical forest

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1553-1566

  Menke, Sebastian ^a,b   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a,c   Schleuning, Matthias ^a,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; BODY MASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLOWER VISITING; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUGIVORY; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIALIST; SPECIALIZATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

KENYA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84866176484     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20210.x     Document Type: Article

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