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Proximity is not a proxy for parentage in an animal-dispersed Neotropical canopy palm.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jun 2009
Sezen Uzay U, Chazdon Robin L, Holsinger Kent E
Abstract excerpt
We used parentage analysis to estimate seedling recruitment distances and genetic composition of seedling patches centred around reproductive trees of the animal-dispersed Neotropical canopy palm Iriartea deltoidea in two 0.5 ha plots within second-growth forest and one 0.5 ha plot in adjacent old-growth forest at La Selva Biological Field Station in north-eastern Costa Rica. Seedlings were significantly...
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