An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2002-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-002-0929-1PMID 28547281
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