Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2003-04-17

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature01547PMID 12700760
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