Niche differentiation depends on body size in a cichlid fish: a model system of a community structured according to size regularities.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Animal Ecology

• Publication date

  2008-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01414.xPMID 18624738
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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