Experimental defaunation of terrestrial mammalian herbivores alters tropical rainforest understorey diversity

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2015-02-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2014.2580PMID 25540281PMCID PMC4298212
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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