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Published on: June 17, 2012

Carolina Bernhardsson1, Kathryn M Robinson, Ilka N Abreu

  • 1Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden.

Ecology Letters
|April 23, 2013
PubMed

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