Total dispersal kernels and the evaluation of diversity and similarity in complex dispersal systems

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 252-276

  Nathan, Ran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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