Key role in ecosystem functioning of scavengers reliant on a single common species

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Inger, Richard ^a   Per, Esra ^b   Cox, Daniel T C ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84978880697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29641     Document Type: Article

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