Causal networks clarify productivity – richness interrelations , bivariate plots do not
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Causal networks clarify productivity–richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not James B. Grace*, Peter B. Adler, W. Stanley Harpole, Elizabeth T. Borer and Eric W. Seabloom U.S. Geological Survey, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA; Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA; Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 251 Bessey Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA; and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2014