Sleeping Sites and Latrines of Spider Monkeys in Continuous and Fragmented Rainforests: Implications for Seed Dispersal and Forest Regeneration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  González Zamora, Arturo ^a   Arroyo Rodríguez, Víctor ^b   Oyama, Ken ^c   Sork, Victoria ^d   Chapman, Colin A ^e,f   Stoner, Kathryn E ^g  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RAIN FOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SLEEP; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPIDER MONKEY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; RAIN; SEED DISPERSAL; SLEEP; TOILET FACILITIES; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84867292356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046852     Document Type: Article

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