The evolution of visual fruit signals: Concepts and constraints

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-77

  Schaefer, H Martin ^a   Schaefer, Veronika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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