Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants
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N. J. B. Kraft ([email protected]), Dept of Biology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. – G. M. Crutsinger, Dept of Zoology, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. – E. J. Forrestel, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT 06520, USA. – N. C. Emery, Deps of Biological Sciences and Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014