Biodiversity and environmental context predict dung beetle-mediated seed dispersal in a tropical forest field experiment

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2015-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/14-1211.1
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