Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2006-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature04742PMID 16738658
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