The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine‐scale spatial patterning of ground‐layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests

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  2011

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  Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  2011-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01807.x
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