Experimental defaunation of terrestrial mammalian herbivores alters tropical rainforest understorey diversity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1800, 2014, Pages

  Camargo Sanabria, Angela A ^a   Mendoza, Eduardo ^b   Guevara, Roger ^c   Martínez Rmos, Miguel ^a   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impact; Plant mammal interactions; Tropical diversity; Tropical rainforest mammals

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HERBIVORE; MAMMAL; PLANT; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; UNDERSTORY;

BROSIMUM ALICASTRUM; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; MAMMAL; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN FOREST; SEEDLING; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; MAMMALS; MEXICO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFOREST; SEEDLINGS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84920973716     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2580     Document Type: Article

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