Floristics, primary productivity and primate diversity in Amazonia: Contrasting a eutrophic várzea forest and an oligotrophic caatinga forest in Brazil

Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong Interactors

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-73

  Boubli, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; floristics; frugivory; primates; species richness; tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907909550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3833-X_4     Document Type: Chapter

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