Possible fruit protein effects on primate communities in madagascar and the neotropics.

The ecological factors contributing to the evolution of tropical vertebrate communities are still poorly understood. Primate communities of the tropical Americas have fewer folivorous but more frugivorous genera than tropical regions of the Old World and especially many more frugivorous genera than...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jörg U Ganzhorn, Summer Arrigo-Nelson, Sue Boinski, An Bollen, Valentina Carrai, Abigail Derby, Giuseppe Donati, Andreas Koenig, Martin Kowalewski, Petra Lahann, Ivan Norscia, Sandra Y Polowinsky, Christoph Schwitzer, Pablo R Stevenson, Mauricio G Talebi, Chia Tan, Erin R Vogel, Patricia C Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2788223?pdf=render