Integrating functional diversity into tropical forest plantation designs to study ecosystem processes

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Issue		Ann. For. Sci. Volume 67, Number 3, May 2010


Article Number		303
Number of page(s)		10
Section		Original articles
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/forest/2009110
Published online		18 February 2010

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