Toward a unifying theory of biodiversity

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2018-01-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1721114115PMID 29326234PMCID PMC5789964
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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