Large-scale geographical trends in fruit traits of vertebrate-dispersed temperate plants

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 487-496

  Hampe, Arndt ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abiotic environment; Climate; Fleshy fruits; Fruit frugivore interactions; Intraspecific variability; Large scale geography; Phylogenetic constraints

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; SEED DISPERSAL;

(WEST); EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; FRAXINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038701974     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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