Testing the species traits-environment relationships: the fourth-corner problem revisited.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2008-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/08-0349.1PMID 19137946
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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