Sustaining diversity in trait-based models of phytoplankton communities
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Agostino Merico*, Gunnar Brandt, S. Lan Smith and Marcel Oliver 1 Systems Ecology Group, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany 2 School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany 3 Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Research Group, Research and Development Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan 4 CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan
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تاریخ انتشار 2014