Relative importance of phenotypic trait matching and species' abundances in determining plant - Avian seed dispersal interactions in a small insular community

AoB PLANTS

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  González Castro, Aarón ^a,b,c   Yang, Suann ^b,d   Nogales, Manuel ^a   Carlo, Tomás A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO   (Ecuador)

^d PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Frugivory; Mutualistic networks; Oceanic islands; Probability matrices

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84939798454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv017     Document Type: Article

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