Living in the land of ghosts: Fruit traits and the importance of large mammals as seed dispersers in the pantanal, Brazil

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 104-123

  Donatti, Camila I ^a,b   Galetti, Mauro ^b   Pizo, Marco Aurélio ^c   Guimaraes Jr P R Paulo R ^d,e   Jordano, Pedro ^e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

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