Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on‐site measurements?

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  2013-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/1365-2745.12091
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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