Effects of dam-induced landscape fragmentation on amazonian ant-plant mutualistic networks

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 763-773

  Emer, Carine ^a,b   Venticinque, Eduardo Martins ^c   Fonseca, Carlos Roberto ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coextinction; Compartmentalization; Edge effect; Habitat change; Habitat loss; Myrmecophyte; Nestedness; Species interaction

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DAM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EDGE EFFECT; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; NESTEDNESS; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIDAMIENTO; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAMBIO DE HÁBITAT; COEXTINCIÓN; COEXTINCTION; COMPARTIMENTACIÓN; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EDGE EFFECT; EFECTO DE BORDE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; INTERACCIÓN DE ESPECIES; MIRMECOFITA; MYRMECOPHYTE; NESTEDNESS; PÉRDIDA DE HÁBITAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES INTERACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS; TREE;

ANIDAMIENTO; CAMBIO DE HÁBITAT; COEXTINCIÓN; COEXTINCTION; COMPARTIMENTACIÓN; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EDGE EFFECT; EFECTO DE BORDE; HABITAT CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; INTERACCIÓN DE ESPECIES; MIRMECOFITA; MYRMECOPHYTE; NESTEDNESS; PÉRDIDA DE HÁBITAT; SPECIES INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; PLANTS; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BALBINA RESERVOIR; BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84880700731     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12045     Document Type: Article

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