Flying foxes cease to function as seed dispersers long before they become rare.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2006-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/05-0386PMID 16637350
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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