Foraging-associated hollows of birds facilitate the vegetation resilience in a degraded coastal saltmarsh ecosystem

Dong-dong QIU; Jia-guo YAN; Shu-yan ZHANG; Dian-long ZUO; Ze-zheng LIU; Fang-fang WANG; Qing WANG; Bao-shan CUI

doi:10.31497/zrzyxb.20200216

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