Identifying mechanisms that structure ecological communities by snapping model parameters to empirically observed tradeoffs
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1461-023X,1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12910