Seed dispersal patterns produced by white-faced monkeys: implications for the dispersal limitation of neotropical tree species
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E. V. WEHNCKE*, S. P. HUBBELL†‡, R. B. FOSTER§ and J. W. DALLING†¶ Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado 70–275, México DF 04510, México, † Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama, ‡ Department of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, § Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago IL 60605, USA, and ¶ Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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