Estimates of the number of seeds dispersed by a population of primates in a Lowland forest in Western Amazonia

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 340-362

  Stevenson, Pablo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

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