Complementary Effects of Species Abundances and Ecological Neighborhood on the Occurrence of Fruit-Frugivore Interactions
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1 Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 2 Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Biodiversidad (UO-CSIC-PA), Universidad de Oviedo, Mieres, Spain, 3 Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, United Kingdom
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