Functional Redundancy and Complementarities of Seed Dispersal by the Last Neotropical Megafrugivores

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bueno, Rafael S ^a   Guevara, Roger ^b   Ribeiro, Milton C ^a   Culot, Laurence ^a   Bufalo, Felipe S ^a   Galetti, Mauro ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST STRUCTURE; FRUGIVORE; MURIQUI; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANT LEAF; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAPIR;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BRAZIL; CRYPTOCARYA; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; FERNS; GERMINATION; HERBIVORY; PERISSODACTYLA; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84873586375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056252     Document Type: Article

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