Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2001-10-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.1064088PMID 11679658
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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