The impact of seed dispersal by Clark's nutcracker on whitebark pine: Multi-scale perspective on a high mountain mutualism

Mountain Ecosystems: Studies in Treeline Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 181-201

  Tomback, Diana F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27365-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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