Seed dispersal and spatial pattern in tropical trees

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2132-2137

  Seidler, Tristram G ^a   Plotkin, Joshua B ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUIT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SAPLING; SEED DISPERSAL; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; ANIMAL; BALLISTICS; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; TROPIC CLIMATE; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; FRUIT; GRAVITATION; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WIND;

EID: 33751069716     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040344     Document Type: Article

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