Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/08-0439.1PMID 19449701
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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