Nucleation processes in a mediterranean bird-dispersed plant

Functional Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 275-280

  Verdu M ^a,b   Garcia Fayos P ^a  

^a Atmosphere and Ocean Laboratory   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Abandoned fields; Colonization; Facilitation; Perch

Indexed keywords

AVES; PERCIDAE; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; ANACARDIACEAE;

ORNITHOCHORY; SEED DISPERSAL;

SPAIN;

EID: 0030456608     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389853     Document Type: Article

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