Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2013-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/12-1006.1PMID 24015513
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