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The Functional Significance of Forest Diversity: The Starting Point

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  1. Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Institute of Plant Sciences, Universitätsstr. 2, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  2. Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstr. 6, 4056, Basel, Switzerland

    Christian Körner

  3. Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745, Jena, Germany

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze

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Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Körner, C., Schulze, ED. (2005). The Functional Significance of Forest Diversity: The Starting Point. In: Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Körner, C., Schulze, ED. (eds) Forest Diversity and Function. Ecological Studies, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26599-6_1

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