Correction: Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands author-correction (Nature Ecology & Evolution (2017) DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0003);Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 574-576

  Berdugo, Miguel ^a   Kéfi, Sonia ^b   Soliveres, Santiago ^c   Maestre, Fernando T ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85018347963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2397334X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0382-5     Document Type: Erratum

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