Grasses and browsers reinforce landscape heterogeneity by excluding trees from ecosystem hotspots

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2012-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-011-2123-9PMID 21935665
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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