Are fire, soil fertility and toxicity, water availability, plant functional diversity, and litter decomposition related in a Neotropical savanna?

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2014-04-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-014-2937-3PMID 24748157
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