Large-scale spatial variation in palm fruit abundance across a tropical moist forest estimated from high-resolution aerial photographs
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P. A. Jansen ([email protected]), C. X. Garzon-Lopez and H. Olff, Community and Conservation Ecology, Univ. of Groningen, PO Box 14, NL-9750 AA Haren, the Netherlands. S. A. Bohlman, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. H. C. Muller-Landau, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. S. J. Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, República de Panamá.
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