Roles of birds and bats in early tropical-forest restoration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  De La Peña Domene, Marinés ^a   Martínez Garza, Cristina ^b   Palmas Pérez, Sebastián ^c   Rivas Alonso, Edith ^b   Howe, Henry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BAT; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; FORESTS; MEXICO; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84905911093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104656     Document Type: Article

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