Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant diversity in New England salt marshes.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2009-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01337.xPMID 19566785
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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