An integrated framework to improve the concept of resource specialisation.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2014-08-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12347PMID 25168335
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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