Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

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  2014

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  Methods in Ecology and Evolution

• Publication date

  2014-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/2041-210X.12126
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