Environmental variation and population responses to global change.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12437PMID 25900148
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