Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2011-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02210.xPMID 21272107
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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