Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  2014-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/1365-2745.12220
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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