INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION IN FRUIT SHAPE: ALLOMETRY, PHYLOGENY, AND ADAPTATION TO DISPERSAL AGENTS'

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  1992-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/1940034
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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