Closing the seed dispersal loop

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 379-386

  Wang, Benjamin C ^a   Smith, Thomas B ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEED DISPERSAL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC MARKER; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT SEED; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING; TREE; VEGETATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036679829     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02541-7     Document Type: Review

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