Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2017-11-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12849PMID 28925074
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