Vertebrate Dispersal Syndromes in Some Australian and New Zealand Plant Communities, with Geographic Comparisons

1989/06/01 by Mary F. Willson, A. K. Irvine, Anthony K. Irvine +2 · 14 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Plant and animal studies

paper · doi:10.2307/2388704

Abstract

Mary F. Willson, A. K. Irvine, Neville G. Walsh, Vertebrate Dispersal Syndromes in Some Australian and New Zealand Plant Communities, with Geographic Comparisons, Biotropica, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 133-147

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