Plant-Frugivore interactions as spatially explicit networks: Integrating frugivore foraging with fruiting plant spatial patterns

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 369-390

  Carlo, Tomás A ^a   Aukema, Juliann E ^b   Morales, Juan M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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