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A systematic review of the recent ecological literature on cushion plants: champions of plant facilitation
A. M. Reid
Dept. of Biology, York Univ., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
L. J. Lamarque
Dept. of Biology, York Univ., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
C. J. Lortie
Dept. of Biology, York Univ., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- Variation in plant functional groups indicates land degradation on the Tibetan Plateau J. Luo et al.
- Shrub facilitation is an important driver of alpine plant community diversity and functional composition M. Ballantyne & C. Pickering
- Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient M. Mihoč et al.
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