Functional extinction of birds drives rapid evolutionary changes in seed size

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6136, 2013, Pages 1086-1090

  Galetti, Mauro ^a   Guevara, Roger ^b   Côrtes, Marina C ^a   Fadini, Rodrigo ^c   Von Matter, Sandro ^d   Leite, Abraão B ^a   Labecca, Fábio ^a   Ribeiro, Thiago ^a   Carvalho, Carolina S ^e   Collevatti, Rosane G ^e   Pires, Mathias M ^f   Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^f   Brancalion, Pedro H ^f   Ribeiro, Milton C ^a   Jordano, Pedro ^g  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO OESTE DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EVERGREEN TREE; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PHENOTYPE; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SELECTION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAZIL; FRUGIVORE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED SIZE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84878352309     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1233774     Document Type: Article

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