Quantifying the impact of an extreme climate event on species diversity in fragmented temperate forests: the effect of the October 1987 storm on British broadleaved woodlands
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Simon M. Smart*, Aaron M. Ellison, Robert G. H. Bunce, Robert H. Marrs, Keith J. Kirby, Adam Kimberley, Andy W. Scott and David R. Foster NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK; Harvard Forest, Harvard University, 324 North Main St, Petersham, MA 01366, USA; Estonian University of Life Sciences, Freidrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014 Tartu, Estonia; Ecology and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool, Nicholson Building, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK; and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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