Why are adaptations for long-range seed dispersal rare in desert plants?

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• Publication year

  1981

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  1981-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/BF00344663PMID 28310320
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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