Dual influences of ecosystem size and disturbance on food chain length in streams.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2010-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01484.xPMID 20482579
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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