How seed dispersal affects interactions with specialized natural enemies and their contribution to the maintenance of diversity

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 407-426

  Muller Landau, Helene C ^a   Adler, Frederick R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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