Out of one shadow and into another: Causes and consequences of spatially contagious seed dispersal by frugivores

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 427-444

  Kwit, Charles ^a,b   Levey, Douglas J ^c   Turner, Susan A ^d   Clark, Connie J ^c   Poulsen, John R ^c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^d Greenville Technical College   (United States)

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