A large herbivore triggers alternative successional trajectories in the boreal forest.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2013-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/12-2015.1PMID 24597230
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