Dispersal of fleshy-fruited species: A matter of spatial scale?

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-51

  Kollmann, Johannes ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biome; Dispersal processes; Habitat; Landscape; Microhabitat; Multi scaled analysis; Region

Indexed keywords

FRUIT; SCALE EFFECT; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034080292     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00003     Document Type: Article

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