Foliage color contrasts and adaptive fruit color variation in a bird-dispersed plant community

Oikos

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 463-469

  Burns, K C ^a,b,d   Dalen, J L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FRUIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; ZOOCHORY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036222430     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.960308.x     Document Type: Article

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