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Johannes Knuesting, Marie Clara Brinkmann, Brenner Silva, Michael Schorsch, Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck, Renate Scheibe
Who will win where and why? An ecophysiological dissection of the competition between a tropical pasture grass and the invasive weed Bracken over an elevation range of 1000 m in the tropical Andes
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