Coordination of aboveground and belowground responses to localscale soil fertility differences between two contrasting Jamaican rain forest types
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D. A. Wardle ([email protected]) and P. Kardol, Dept of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, SE901 83 Umeå, Sweden. – P. J. Bellingham, Landcare Research, PO Box 69040, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand. – R. Giesler, Climate Impacts Research Centre, Dept of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå Univ., Abisko, Sweden. – E. V. J. Tanner, Dept of Plant Sciences, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK.
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