Morphology predicts species' functional roles and their degree of specialization in plant–frugivore interactions

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  2016

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-01-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.2444PMID 26817779PMCID PMC4795026
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