Further re-analyses looking for effects of phylogenetic diversity on community biomass and stability
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Bradley J. Cardinale, Patrick Venail , Kevin Gross, Todd H. Oakley, Anita Narwani, Eric Allan, Pedro Flombaum, Jasmin Joshi, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, Jasper van Ruijven 5 School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. Section of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Institute F.-A. Forel, University of Geneva, Versoix, Switzerland. Statistics Department, North Carolina State University, 2311 Stinson Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 1
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