It takes guts (and more) to eat fruit: Lessons from avian nutritional ecology

Auk

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 819-831

  Levey, D J ^a   Martinez del Rio C ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FRUGIVORY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035215044     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089834     Document Type: Review

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