Contagious deposition of seeds in spider monkeys' sleeping trees limits effective seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  González Zamora, Arturo ^a   Arroyo Rodríguez, Víctor ^b   Escobar, Federico ^a   Rös, Matthias ^a   Oyama, Ken ^b,c   Ibarra Manríquez, Guillermo ^b   Stoner, Kathryn E ^d   Chapman, Colin A ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATELES GEOFFROYI; FEEDING; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FRUIT; LANDSCAPE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RAIN FOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPIDER MONKEY; TREE;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; SEED DISPERSAL; TREES;

EID: 84896381356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089346     Document Type: Article

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