The relationship between species richness of vertebrate mutualists and their food plants in tropical and subtropical communities differs among hemispheres

Oikos

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 556-562

  Fleming, Theodore H ^a  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOST PLANT; MUTUALISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 29144462595     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2005.14272.x     Document Type: Article

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