Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2006-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2006.00924.XPMID 16706917
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