Small-scale indirect effects determine the outcome of a tripartite plant–disperser–granivore interaction

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2009-07-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s00442-009-1404-zPMID 19579034
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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