James et al. reply

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7463, 2013, Pages

  James, Alex ^a   Pitchford, Jonathan W ^b   Plank, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84883038517     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12381     Document Type: Note

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