Predicting Population Trends from Size Distributions: A Direct Test in a Tropical Tree Community

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1998-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/286186PMID 18811360
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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