Niches, rather than neutrality, structure a grassland pioneer guild

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2005-07-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2005.3084PMID 16006328PMCID PMC1560334
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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