Beetle assemblages from an Australian tropical rainforest show that the canopy and the ground strata contribute equally to biodiversity

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2006-08-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2006.3521PMID 16822759PMCID PMC1634767
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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