Seed mass, abundance and breeding system among tropical forest species: do dioecious species exhibit compensatory reproduction or abundances?
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1 Department of Animal and Plant Science, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; 2 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; 3 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4; 4 Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-6509, USA; and 5 Department of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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