Hunting alters seedling functional trait composition in a Neotropical forest.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/14-1735.1PMID 26378314
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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