Community development along a proglacial chronosequence: are aboveground and belowground community structure controlled more by biotic than abiotic factors?
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Matthew L. Carlson, Lindsey A. Flagstad, François Gillet and Edward A. D. Mitchell* Alaska Natural Heritage Program and Biological Sciences Department, University of Alaska Anchorage, 707 A St., Anchorage, AK 99501, USA; Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, UMR 6249 CNRS, Université de Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Ecological Systems, Station 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Ecosystem Boundaries Research Unit, Wetlands Research Group, WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Station 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; and Laboratory of Soil Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, CH-2009 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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