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Landscape Corridors Promote Long-Distance Seed Dispersal by Birds During Winter but Not During Summer at an Experimentally Fragmented Restoration Site

Daniel M. Evans, Douglas J. Levey and Joshua J. Tewksbury
Ecological Restoration, March 2013, 31 (1) 23-30; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.31.1.23
Daniel M. Evans
Daniel M. Evans (corresponding author), Department of Biology, University of Washington, 24 Kincaid Hall, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, .
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Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey, National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230
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Joshua J. Tewksbury, Department of Biology, University of Washington, 24 Kincaid Hall, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195
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