Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2017-09-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature23886PMID 28869964
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