Vertebrate Frugivores and Their Interaction with Invertebrate Fruit Predators: Supporting Evidence from a Costa Rican Dry Forest
- 1 February 1989
- Vol. 54 (2) , 185-188
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3565264
Abstract
Fruit-eating vertebrates may have a significant impact on the population sizes of insect fruit predators that remain inside the fruit after ripening, and it may...This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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