Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/06-0421PMID 17479767
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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