Grazing reduces the capacity of Landscape Function Analysis to predict regional-scale nutrient availability or decomposition, but not total nutrient pools
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Indicators
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1470-160X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.034