Corridors restore animal-mediated pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1823, 2016, Pages

  Kormann, Urs ^a,b   Scherber, Christoph ^a,c   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Klein, Nadja ^a   Larbig, Manuel ^a   Valente, Jonathon J ^b   Hadley, Adam S ^b   Betts, Matthew G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functioning; Functional connectivity; Hummingbird; Mutualistic interaction; Pollen flow; Pollinator limitation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONNECTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MUTUALISM; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALIA; TROCHILIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POLLINATION; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84955563389     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2347     Document Type: Article

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