Changes of community composition at multiple trophic levels due to hunting in Nigerian tropical forests

Ecography

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 367-377

  Effiom, Edu O ^a,b   Birkhofer, Klaus ^a   Smith, Henrik G ^a   Olsson, Ola ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Forest Carbon Unit Forestry Commission   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BUFFERING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HUNTING; PLANT; PRIMATE; PROTECTED AREA; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL FOREST;

NIGERIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; PROCAVIIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 84897110220     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00359.x     Document Type: Article

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