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Anping Chen1, Shaopeng Wang, Stephen W Pacala

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. anpingc@princeton.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 30, 2012
PubMed
概括

生物多样性的中性理论 (NTB) 可能会解释跨大陆的树种多样性模式. 树家族和树序的相关性,但不是属,与NTB的预测保持一致.

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