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Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea pp 123–191Cite as

Patterns of biodiversity

Keywords

  • Biodiversity gradients
  • Evenness
  • Functional diversity
  • Human impacts
  • Low-diversity ecosystem
  • Resilience

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