Dispersal modes affect tropical forest assembly across trophic levels

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 984-993

  Beaudrot, Lydia ^a   Rejmánek, Marcel ^a   Marshall, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISPERSAL; FRUIT; PRIMATE; RAINFALL; SORTING; TREE; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84883265149     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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