Drivers of lowland rain forest community assembly, species diversity and forest structure on islands in the tropical South Pacific

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  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  2010-01-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01595.x
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