Fruit-frugivore interactions in Amazonian seasonally flooded and unflooded forests

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 381-399

  Hawes, Joseph E ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

birds; Brazil; community; diet; feeding ecology; fish; networks; primates; terra firme; v rzea

Indexed keywords

AVES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

BIRD; DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FISH; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84905589149     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467414000261     Document Type: Article

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