An empirical approach to analysing the demographic consequences of seed dispersal by frugivores

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 391-406

  Godínez Alvarez, Héctor ^a   Jordano, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

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