Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet photos
Birds sitting or feeding on live large African herbivorous mammals are a visible, yet quite neglected, type of commensalistic–mutualistic association. Here, we investigate general patterns in such relationships at large spatial and taxonomic scales. To obtain large-scale data, an extensive internet-...
Main Authors: | Peter Mikula, Jiří Hadrava, Tomáš Albrecht, Piotr Tryjanowski |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-03-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/4520.pdf |
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