Correlated evolution of fruit and leaf size in bird-dispersed plants: Species-level variance in fruit traits explained a bit further?

Oikos

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 426-432

  Herrera, Carlos M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEED DISPERSAL; ZOOCHORY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036076497     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.970312.x     Document Type: Review

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