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Interim Report IR-12-07 2
Size-dependent mortality and competition interactively shape community diversity
Barbara Taborsky Mikko Heino
Ulf Dieckmann (dieckmann@iiasa.ac.at)
Approved by Pavel Kabat
Director General and Chief Executive Officer February 2015
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