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No observational evidence for diversity-enhancing productivity in Mediterranean shrublands?

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Troumbis, A.Y. No observational evidence for diversity-enhancing productivity in Mediterranean shrublands?. Oecologia 129, 622–623 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420100754

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