Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems: how metacommunity processes alter ecosystems attributes.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/ecy.1697PMID 27984663
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