Seed dispersal by animals: exact identification of source trees with endocarp DNA microsatellites
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Seed dispersal by animals: exact identification of source trees with endocarp DNA microsatellites.
A long-standing challenge in studies of seed dispersal by animal frugivores has been the characterization of the spatial relationships between dispersed seeds and the maternal plants, i.e. the seed shadow. The difficulties to track unambiguously the origin of frugivore-dispersed seeds in natural communities has been considered an unavoidable limitation of the research field and precluded a robu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Ecology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0962-1083,1365-294X
DOI: 10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01342.x