Within- and between-species patterns of allocation to pulp and seed in vertebrate dispersed plants

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-114

  Edwards, Will ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUIT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED; SEED DISPERSAL; ZOOCHORY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20444404667     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.12846.x     Document Type: Article

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