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    Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech

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    Intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in reef-building corals

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    Marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across timescales

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    Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

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    Thiolated arsenic species observed in rice paddy pore waters

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    Strength of species interactions determines biodiversity and stability in microbial communities

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    Short-range interactions govern the dynamics and functions of microbial communities

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