Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2016-11-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature20575PMID 27919075
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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