Roles of birds and bats in early tropical-forest restoration.

Restoration of tropical forest depended in large part on seed dispersal by fruit-eating animals that transported seeds into planted forest patches. We tested effectiveness of dispersal agents as revealed by established recruits of tree and shrub species that bore seeds dispersed by birds, bats, or b...

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Main Authors: Marinés de la Peña-Domene, Cristina Martínez-Garza, Sebastián Palmas-Pérez, Edith Rivas-Alonso, Henry F Howe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4131887?pdf=render