Species interactions regulate the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystem function in tropical forest fragments

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2692-2704

  Bregman, Tom P ^a   Lees, Alexander C ^b,c   Seddon, Nathalie ^a   Macgregor, Hannah E A ^a,d   Darski, Bianca ^b   Aleixo, Alexandre ^b   Bonsall, Michael B ^a   Tobias, Joseph A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian communities; Biodiversity conservation; Community disassembly; Diet and morphology; Ecosystem services; Fragmentation; Functional traits; Habitat filtering; Interspecific competition; Limiting similarity; Mato Grosso, Brazil; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSECTIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CHAIN; FOREST; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; FOOD CHAIN; FORESTS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84944097143     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1731.1     Document Type: Article

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