External morphology explains the success of biological invasions.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2014-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12351PMID 25227153
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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