Large vertebrates as the missing components of seed-dispersal networks

Biological Conservation

Volumn 163, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-48

  Vidal, Mariana M ^a   Pires, Mathias M ^a   Guimarães, Paulo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Defaunation; Interaction networks; Large frugivores; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; CONNECTIVITY; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RARE SPECIES; SEED DISPERSAL;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879146684     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.03.025     Document Type: Article

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