From plant traits to vegetation structure: Chance and selection in the assembly of ecological communities

From Plant Traits to Vegetation Structure: Chance and Selection in the Assembly of Ecological Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-277

  Shipley, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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