Monkey and dung beetle activities influence soil seed bank structure 1 2 3
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1 2 3 François Feer 1a , Jean-François Ponge a , Sylvie Jouard a and Doris Gomez b 4 5 a Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7179, 4 avenue du Petit-Château, 6 91800 Brunoy, France 7 b Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, CNRS UMR 5175, 1919 Route de Mende, 8 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France 9 10 1 Corresponding author ; e-mail : [email protected] 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 . 20 21 Manuscript Click here to download Manuscript: RevisedFeeretal12-00058.doc Click here to view linked References
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