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. 2016 Aug 30;113(35):E5097.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1609635113. Epub 2016 Aug 10.

Reply to Willis: Powerful predictions of biodiversity from ecological models and scaling laws

Kenneth J Locey  1 , Jay T Lennon  1
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Reply to Willis: Powerful predictions of biodiversity from ecological models and scaling laws

Kenneth J Locey et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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