Bushmeat hunting changes regeneration of African rainforests

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1759, 2013, Pages

  Effiom, Edu O ^a,b   Nuñez Iturri, Gabriela ^c   Smith, Henrik G ^a   Ottosson, Ulf ^d   Olsson, Ola ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Cross River State Forestry Commission   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Bushmeat hunting; Seed dispersal; Seedling community

Indexed keywords

BUSHMEAT; HUNTING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMATE; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

AFRICA;

EID: 84875317197     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0246     Document Type: Article

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