The Community-Level Consequences of Seed Dispersal Patterns

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2003, Pages 549-574

  Levine, Jonathan M ^a   Murrell, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Aggregation; Distribution; Diversity

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0842301552     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132400     Document Type: Review

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