Linking seed and seedling shadows: A case study in the Oaks (quercus)

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 322-339

  Steele, Michael A ^a   Carlson, John E ^b   Smallwood, Peter D ^c   McEuen, Amy B ^a,d   Contreras, Thomas A ^e   Terzaghi, William B ^a  

^a WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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