Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor
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Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor Nathan J. B. Kraft*, Peter B. Adler, Oscar Godoy, Emily C. James, Steve Fuller and Jonathan M. Levine Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA; Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 84322, USA; Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiolog ıa de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, PO Box 1052, Sevilla E-41080, Spain; and Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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