The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance and densitydependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns
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Noelle G. Beckman*†, Claudia Neuhauser and Helene C. Muller-Landau Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA; Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota-Rochester, 300 University Square, 111 S Broadway, Rochester, MN 55904, USA; and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 9100 Box 0948, DPO, AA 34002-9948, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 100 Ecology, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
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