Ground foraging and seed dispersal of a gallery forest tree by the fruit-eating bat Artibeus lituratus

Mammalia

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-112

  Gastal, M L ^a   Bizerril, M X A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIBEUS LITURATUS;

EID: 0032801510     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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