Reduced hornbill abundance associated with low seed arrival and altered recruitment in a hunted and logged tropical forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Naniwadekar, Rohit ^a   Shukla, Ushma ^a   Isvaran, Kavita ^b   Datta, Aparajita ^a  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUGIVORE; HORNBILL; LOGGING; NONHUMAN; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEED DISPERSAL; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FORESTS; SEEDS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84924956339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120062     Document Type: Article

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