Plant diversity maintains long-term ecosystem productivity under frequent drought by increasing short-term variation.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2017-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/ecy.2003PMID 28869781
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