Fruit-seed disperser interactions: Timely insights from a long-term perspective

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 41-43

  Levey, D J ^a   Benkman, C W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLANT SEED;

ANIMALIA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0032974419     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01528-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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