Why biodiversity is important to the functioning of real‐world ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2009-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/070195
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