Geographic variation in fruit colour is associated with contrasting seed disperser assemblages in a south-Andean mistletoe

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-326

  Amico, Guillermo C ^a   Rodriguez Cabal, Mariano A ^b   Aizen, Marcelo A ^b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente Bariloche   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; COEVOLUTION; COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; FRUIT; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; RIPENING; SEED DISPERSAL; SHRUB; TEMPERATE FOREST; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); TRAPPING;

SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; LORANTHACEAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; TRISTERIX CORYMBOSUS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 79953283921     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06459.x     Document Type: Article

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