Overfishing disrupts an ancient mutualism between frugivorous fishes and plants in Neotropical wetlands

Biological Conservation

Volumn 191, Issue , 2015, Pages 159-167

  Correa, Sandra Bibiana ^a   Araujo, Joisiane K ^b   Penha, Jerry M F ^b   da Cunha, Catia Nunes ^b   Stevenson, Pablo R ^c   Anderson, Jill T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Amazon; Defaunation; Flooded forest; Flooded savannah; Pantanal; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

DIETARY OVERLAP; FISH; FRUGIVORY; GERMINATION; GUILD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MUTUALISM; NEOTROPICAL REGION; OVERFISHING; POPULATION DECLINE; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WETLAND;

AMAZONIA; PANTANAL;

ANIMALIA; PIARACTUS MESOPOTAMICUS; PISCES;

EID: 84933526879     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.019     Document Type: Article

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