Mycorrhizal plants and vertebrate seed and spore dispersal: Incorporating mycorrhizas into the seed dispersal paradigm

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 463-478

  Theimer, Tad C ^a   Gehring, Catherine A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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