Nutrient enrichment alters the consequences of species loss
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Nessa E. O’Connor*, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Tasman P. Crowe and Ian Donohue School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT 9 7BL, UK; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Natural Sciences, Department of Zoology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; and Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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تاریخ انتشار 2015