Keystone species in seed dispersal networks are mainly determined by dietary specialization

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1031-1039

  Mello, Marco Aurelio Ribeiro ^a,b   Rodrigues, Francisco Aparecido ^c   Costa, Luciano da Fontoura ^c   Kissling, W Daniel ^d   Şekercioğlu, Çağan H ^e,f   Marquitti, Flavia Maria Darcie ^c   Kalko, Elisabeth Klara Viktoria ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f KuzeyDo a Derne i   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; BODY MASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIET; FRUGIVORY; KEYSTONE SPECIES; NEOTROPICAL REGION; RANGE SIZE; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIALIZATION;

AVES;

EID: 84939564370     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01613     Document Type: Article

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