Long-Term Dynamics and Hotspots of Change in a Desert Grassland Plant Community

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2014-12-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/679315PMID 25616147
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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