Mammalian engineers drive soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions across a disturbance gradient.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Animal Ecology

• Publication date

  2016-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/1365-2656.12574PMID 27426226
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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