Frugivores, seeds and genes: Analysing the key elements of seed shadows

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 229-251

  Jordano, Pedro ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

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