Soil fertility and species traits, but not diversity, drive productivity and biomass stocks in a Guyanese tropical rainforest

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Functional Ecology

• Publication date

  2018-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/1365-2435.12968
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