The Ecotron Facility at Silwood Park: The Value of "Big Bottle" Experiments

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  1996-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/2265488
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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