Functional relationships beyond species richness patterns: trait matching in plantbird mutualisms across scales
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Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) and Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, 01109 Dresden, Germany, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany, Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC-EBD), Avda. Americo Vespucio s/n, Isla de La Cartuja, E41092 Sevilla, Spain, Department of Biological Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt (Main), Germany ABSTRACT
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