Synthetic analysis of the stress-gradient hypothesis

Positive Plant Interactions and Community Dynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 125-147

  Lortie, Christopher J ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781439824955     Document Type: Chapter

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