Revisiting Paine’s 1966 Sea Star Removal Experiment, the Most-Cited Empirical Article in the American Naturalist

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2016-08-08

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/688045PMID 27622872
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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