Human impacts on multiple ecological networks act synergistically to drive ecosystem collapse

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 408-413

  Valiente Banuet, Alfonso ^a,b   Verdú, Miguel ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; POLLINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84885050957     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130002     Document Type: Article

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