Diversity of plant nutrient-acquisition strategies increases during long-term ecosystem development

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Zemunik, Graham ^a   Turner, Benjamin L ^a,b   Lambers, Hans ^a   Laliberté, Etienne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 85137346686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.50     Document Type: Article

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