Functional trade-offs increase species diversity in experimental plant communities.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2012-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01850.xPMID 22891693
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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