Anthropogenic disturbance reduces seed-dispersal services for myrmecochorous plants in the Brazilian Caatinga

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 173-181

  Leal, Laura C ^a   Andersen, Alan N ^b   Leal, Inara R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ants; Croton sonderianus; Ecological services; Jatropha mollissima; Mutualisms

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIASPORA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DISPERSAL;

BRAZIL;

DINOPONERA; DINOPONERA QUADRICEPS; ECTATOMMA; ECTATOMMA MUTICUM; EUPHORBIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; JATROPHA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUPHORBIACEAE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUPHORBIACEAE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 84891902135     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2740-6     Document Type: Article

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