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in scientific ecology. The paper describes the plant community "as a working mechanism, which maintains and regenerates itself". The view it advocated that a plant community consists of a mosaic of phases differing in the stage of the life cycle of the dominant species, with correlated effects on the
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867:(1981). "Further Observations on the Effects of Excluding Rabbits from Grassland a in East Anglian Breckland: The Pattern of Change and Factors Affecting it (1936–73)".
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