Restoring grassland biodiversity: Sowing low-diversity seed mixtures can lead to rapid favourable changes

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  2010

• Venue

  Biological Conservation

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.BIOCON.2009.12.024
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