On the role of microenvironmental heterogeneity in the ecology and diversification of neotropical rain-forest palms (Arecaceae)

Botanical Review

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-53

  Svenning, J C ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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ANIMALIA; ARECACEAE;

EID: 0034980460     PISSN: 00068101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02857848     Document Type: Review

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290. A review of animal-mediated seed dispersal of palms