Plant litter effects on soil nutrient availability and vegetation dynamics: changes that occur when annual grasses invade shrub-steppe communities

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Plant Ecology

• Publication date

  2014-02-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11258-014-0307-1
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