The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

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  2004

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2004-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2004.00608.X
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