Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist.

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  2011

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  Ecology Letters

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  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01552.xPMID 21070562
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