Units of nature or processes across scales? The ecosystem concept at age 75.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  New Phytologist

• Publication date

  2011-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03646.xPMID 21294739
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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