A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2006.01006.XPMID 17257101
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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