SIZE DOESN'T MATTER: MICROBIAL SELECTION EXPERIMENTS ADDRESS ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1679:sdmmse]2.0.co;2