Forest structure drives global diversity of primates

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1523-1530

  Gouveia, Sidney F ^a   Villalobos, Fabricio ^b   Dobrovolski, Ricardo ^c   Beltrão Mendes, Raone ^d   Ferrari, Stephen F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diversity gradients; Environmental productivity; Forest stratification; Niche conservatism; Primate biogeography; Spatial eigenvector mapping; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; FORESTS; PRIMATES; RAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84908879652     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12241     Document Type: Article

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