Are ecologists blind to small things? The missed stories on non-tropical seed predation on feces

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1537-1545

  Manzano, Pablo ^a   Azcárate, Francisco M ^a   Peco, Begoña ^a   Malo, Juan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FECES; MORTALITY; SEED PREDATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL REGION; ZOOCHORY;

OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956634198     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18602.x     Document Type: Article

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