Are bird-consumed fruits complementary resources?

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 195-205

  Whelan, Christopher J ^a,b   Schmidt, Kenneth A ^c,d   Steele, Benjamin B ^e   Quinn, William J ^f   Dilger, Steven ^a  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^e Department of Natural Science   (United States)

^f ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FRUIT; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031751582     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546561     Document Type: Article

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