Understory plant communities and the functional distinction between savanna trees, forest trees, and pines.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2013-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/12-1019.1PMID 23691661
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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