Biodiversity and environmental context predict dung beetle-mediated seed dispersal in a tropical forest field experiment

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1607-1619

  Griffiths, Hannah M ^a,b   Louzada, Julio ^a,b   Bardgett, Richard D ^a,c   Beiroz, Wallace ^a,b   FrançA, Filipe ^a,b   Tregidgo, Daniel ^a,b   Barlow, Jos ^a,d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal mediated functioning; BEF; Context dependency; Dung beetles; Functional diversity; Functional diversity indices; Functional traits; Secondary seed dispersal; Soil

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FIELD METHOD; GRASSLAND; MORPHOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84930836022     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1211.1     Document Type: Article

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