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| A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space
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| Environmental DNA for rivers: from degradation processes to diversity analysis and monitoring
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| Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales
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| Interacting temperature, nutrients and zooplankton grazing control phytoplankton size-abundance relationships in eight Swiss Lakes
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| Beaver effects on macroinvertebrate assemblages in two streams with contrasting morphology
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| Prior adaptation of parasitoids improves biological control of symbiont-protected pests
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| Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome
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