Reconstructing past ecological networks: The reconfiguration of seed-dispersal interactions after megafaunal extinction

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1247-1256

  Pires, Mathias M ^a   Galetti, Mauro ^b   Donatti, Camila I ^c   Pizo, Marco A ^b   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^c   Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological networks; Frugivory; Modularity; Mutualisms; Pantanal; Rewilding

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MAMMALS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDS;

EID: 84904705378     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2971-1     Document Type: Article

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