Behavior rather than diet mediates seasonal differences in seed dispersal by Asian elephants.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2008-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/07-1573.1PMID 18959306
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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