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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Nova Publishers
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Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 335
Pages: 335
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. The wide range of body sizes in ecolog
Language: en
Pages: 283
Pages: 283
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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