Harvest-created canopy gaps increase species and functional trait diversity of the forest ground-layer community

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Forest Science

• Publication date

  2014-04-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5849/FORSCI.13-015
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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