Secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in an Amazonian forest fragment of Colombia: Influence of dung type and edge effect

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 399-408

  Santos Heredia, Carolina ^a,b   Andresen, Ellen ^b   Stevenson, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Plant animal interaction; Scarabaeidae; Seed fate

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; LAGOTHRIX; MAMMALIA; SCARABAEIDAE;

ANIMAL; ATELIDAE; BEETLE; COLOMBIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ATELIDAE; BEETLES; COLOMBIA; FECES; FORESTS; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84868149603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2011.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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