Fruit characteristics and factors affecting fruit removal in a Panamanian community of strangler figs

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 560-568

  Korine, Carmi ^a,b,c   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,b   Herre, Edward Allen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bats; Birds; Coadaptation; Ficus; Frugivory; Fruit removal; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; FRUGIVORY; FRUITING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL;

PANAMA;

FICUS;

EID: 0033946346     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008861     Document Type: Article

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