How to design trait-based analyses of community assembly mechanisms: Insights and guidelines from a literature review

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  2017

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  Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.PPEES.2017.01.004
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