Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seed-tracking data
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Quantifying seed dispersal kernels from truncated seedtracking data
Ben T. Hirsch*, Marco D. Visser, Roland Kays and Patrick A. Jansen New York State Museum, 3140 CEC, Albany, NY 12230, USA; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 9100, Box 0948, DPO AA 34002-9898, USA; Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Centre for Ecosystem Studies, Wageningen University and Resear...
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عنوان ژورنال: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2041-210X
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00183.x