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A Semantic Web Faceted Search System for Facilitating Building of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services

A generic structure for plant trait databases

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A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology

scientific article

A global database of paired leaf nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations of terrestrial plants

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

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A global trait-based approach to estimate leaf nitrogen functional allocation from observations

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A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data

scientific article published in 2018

A plant growth form dataset for the New World

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A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata

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A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

scientific article

A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms

scientific article (publication date: 10 June 2014)

A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

A vertically discretised canopy description for ORCHIDEE (SVN r2290) and the modifications to the energy, water and carbon fluxes

scientific article published in 2015

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

scientific article

Acclimation of leaf respiration consistent with optimal photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Advances in flowering phenology across the Northern Hemisphere are explained by functional traits

scientific article published in 2017

An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective

scientific article published on 02 July 2021

Are trait-based species rankings consistent across data sets and spatial scales?

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Assessing Impacts of Plant Stoichiometric Traits on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Accumulation Using the E3SM Land Model

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Available and missing data to model impact of climate change on European forests

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

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Beyond distance-invariant survival in inverse recruitment modeling: A case study in Siberian Pinus sylvestris forests

scientific article published in 2012

Biodiversity Data Integration: The significance of data resolution and domain

scientific article published in 2019

Biodiversity data integration--The significance of data resolution and domain

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Biogeographic patterns of multi-element stoichiometry of Quercus variabilis leaves across China

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Chronic fertilization and irrigation gradually and increasingly restructure grassland communities

scientific article published in 2019

Citizen science plant observations encode global trait patterns

scientific article published in 2022

Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article

Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality

scientific article

Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

scientific article published on 9 February 2023

Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale

scientific article published on 27 February 2021

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

CoRRE Trait Data: A dataset of 17 categorical and continuous traits for 4079 grassland species worldwide

scientific article published in 2024

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

Comprehensive leaf size traits dataset for seven plant species from digitised herbarium specimen images covering more than two centuries

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds

scientific article published in 2013

Constraining a land-surface model with multiple observations by application of the MPI-Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System V1.0

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Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality

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Contrasting effects of tree diversity on young tree growth and resistance to insect herbivores across three biodiversity experiments

article by Josephine Haase et al published 8 April 2015 in Oikos

Corrigendum to García-Palacioset al. ()

scholarly article published in Ecology Letters

Cross-site evaluation of eddy covariance GPP and RE decomposition techniques

article by Ankur R Desai et al published June 2008 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Dispersal limitation determines large-scale dark diversity in Central and Northern Europe

Dispersal limitation drives successional pathways in Central Siberian forests under current and intensified fire regimes

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Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

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Ecophysiological Characteristics of Mature Trees and Stands - Consequences for Old-Growth Forest Productivity

Effect of elevated CO2 on soil N dynamics in a temperate grassland soil

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Environmental versus phylogenetic controls on leaf nitrogen and phosphorous concentrations in vascular plants

scientific article published on 24 June 2024

Estimating Basal Area of Spruce and Fir in Post-fire Residual Stands in Central Siberia Using Quickbird, Feature Selection, and Random Forests

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Estimating themissing species bias in plant trait measurements

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Estimation of parameters in complex 15N tracing models by Monte Carlo sampling

Fame, glory and neglect in meta-analyses

scientific article published on 15 August 2011

Family-level leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of global terrestrial plants

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Feedback of carbon and nitrogen cycles enhances carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere

scholarly article by GERD ESSER et al published 4 January 2011 in Global Change Biology

Foliar temperature acclimation reduces simulated carbon sensitivity to climate

Functional Resilience against Climate-Driven Extinctions - Comparing the Functional Diversity of European and North American Tree Floras

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Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests

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Functional rarity of plants in German hay meadows — Patterns on the species level and mismatches with community species richness

scientific article published in 2022

Future challenges of representing land-processes in studies on land-atmosphere interactions

scientific article published in 2012

Future global productivity will be affected by plant trait response to climate

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Global Estimation of Biophysical Variables from Google Earth Engine Platform

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Global convergence in leaf respiration from estimates of thermal acclimation across time and space

scientific article

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

scientific article

Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Global leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry and their scaling exponent

Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs

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Global relationships in tree functional traits

scientific article published on 08 June 2022

Global root traits (GRooT) database

scientific article

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Hardscape floristics: Functional and phylogenetic diversity of parking‐lot plants

scientific article published on 03 August 2019

Harmonizing, annotating and sharing data in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

article by Karin Nadrowski et al published 20 December 2012 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis

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Improved representation of plant functional types and physiology in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES v4.2) using plant trait information

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Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

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Improving ecosystem productivity modeling through spatially explicit estimation of optimal light use efficiency

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Improving land surface models with FLUXNET data

scientific article published on 29 April 2010

Improving the predictability of global CO2assimilation rates under climate change

scholarly article by Tilo Ziehn et al published May 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters

Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types reduces the projected land carbon sink in an earth system model

scientific article

Increasing Functional Diversity in a Global Land Surface Model Illustrates Uncertainties Related to Parameter Simplification

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

Influences of observation errors in eddy flux data on inverse model parameter estimation

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Inter- and intraspecific variation in leaf economic traits in wheat and maize

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Invasive species' leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis

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Inversion of terrestrial ecosystem model parameter values against eddy covariance measurements by Monte Carlo sampling

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LT‐Brazil: A database of leaf traits across biomes and vegetation types in Brazil

scientific article published on 30 August 2021

Large sensitivity in land carbon storage due to geographical and temporal variation in the thermal response of photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition

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Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

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Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

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Long-term leaf C:N ratio change under elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition in China: Evidence from observations and process-based modeling

scientific article published on 11 August 2021

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Modeling the vertical soil organic matter profile using Bayesian parameter estimation

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Modes of functional biodiversity control on tree productivity across the European continent

scientific article published in 2015

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

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Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

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Multi-scale phylogenetic structure in coastal dune plant communities across the globe

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Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

News on intra‐specific trait variation, species sorting, and optimality theory for functional biogeography and beyond

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Nitrogen productivity and allocation responses of 12 important tree species to increased CO2

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Nutrient input from hemiparasitic litter favors plant species with a fast-growth strategy

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Nutrient limitation reduces land carbon uptake in simulations with a model of combined carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

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Nutritional constraints on brain evolution: sodium and nitrogen limit brain size

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Of carrots and sticks

Operationalizing Plant Traits

scientific article published in 2019

OptIC project: An intercomparison of optimization techniques for parameter estimation in terrestrial biogeochemical models

scholarly article

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

preprint

PhenoSpace: A Shiny application to visualize trait data in the phenotypic space of the global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article published on 26 January 2021

Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient

scientific article published on 19 March 2012

Phylogenetic measures of plant communities show long-term change and impacts of fire management in tallgrass prairie remnants

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Phylogenetic patterns and phenotypic profiles of the species of plants and mammals farmed for food

scholarly article by Rubén Milla et al published November 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Plant community structure and nitrogen inputs modulate the climate signal on leaf traits

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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

scientific article published on 9 May 2019

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems.

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Plant trait analysis delivers an extensive list of potential green roof species for Mediterranean France

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Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections of global litter stock distribution

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Potential and limitations of inferring ecosystem photosynthetic capacity from leaf functional traits

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Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

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Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: evidence from 51 grassland species in experimental monocultures

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Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: polycultures show strong nonadditive effects

scientific article published in July 2013

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Publisher Correction: Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

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Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

preprint

Relationships between net primary productivity and forest stand age in U.S. forests

Reply to 'No evidence for different metabolism in domestic mammals'

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Root traits catching up

scientific article published in 2022

Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs

scientific article

Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth

scientific article published on 24 September 2023

Sampling date, leaf age and root size: implications for the study of plant C:N:p stoichiometry

scientific article

Sensitivity of community-level trait-environment relationships to data representativeness: A test for functional biogeography

scholarly article by Benjamin Borgy et al published 20 March 2017 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national-scale grassland soil carbon stocks

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Simultaneous assimilation of satellite and eddy covariance data for improving terrestrial water and carbon simulations at a semi-arid woodland site in Botswana

scholarly article by Tomomichi Kato et al published 5 February 2013 in Biogeosciences

Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

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Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

scholarly article by Talie Musavi et al published 23 January 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Statistical properties of random CO2 flux measurement uncertainty inferred from model residuals

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Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taxonomic and functional diversity in Mediterranean pastures: insights on the biodiversity-productivity trade-off

scientific article published in 2016

Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs.

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Temperature acclimation in a biochemical model of photosynthesis: a reanalysis of data from 36 species

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Ten (mostly) simple rules to future‐proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 November 2022

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

scientific article

The BETHY/JSBACH Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System: experiences and challenges

article by T. Kaminski et al published 9 October 2013 in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The Role of the CLIP Model in Analysing Herbarium Specimen Images

scientific article published on 12 September 2023

The coordination of leaf photosynthesis links C and N fluxes in C3 plant species

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The emergence and promise of functional biogeography

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The flora phenotype ontology (FLOPO): tool for integrating morphological traits and phenotypes of vascular plants

scientific article

The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

The global spectrum of plant form and function

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The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The importance of trait selection in ecology

scientific article published on 28 June 2023

The imprint of plants on ecosystem functioning: A data-driven approach

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The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits - V cmax and J max - to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

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The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas

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The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

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Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

article by Daniel Kissling et al published 17 September 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

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Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally

scientific article published on 22 February 2023

Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

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Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area.

scientific article

Uncertainty Quantified Matrix Completion Using Bayesian Hierarchical Matrix Factorization

article published in 2014

Understanding Intraspecific Trait Variability Using Digital Herbarium Specimen Images

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model

scientific article published on 09 September 2021

Variation in trait trade-offs allows differentiation among predefined plant functional types: implications for predictive ecology

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Vegetation ecology meets ecosystem science: Permanent grasslands as a functional biogeography case study

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

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Whole-plant trait spectra of North American woody plant species reflect fundamental ecological strategies

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Will the tropical land biosphere dominate the climate–carbon cycle feedback during the twenty-first century?

article by T. J. Raddatz et al published 17 April 2007 in Climate Dynamics

iKNOW- A Knowledge Graph Management Platform for the Biodiversity Domain

scientific article published in proceedings of the iswc 2022 posters, demos and industry tracks: from novel ideas to industrial practice

iKNOW: A platform for knowledge graph construction for biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

‘rtry’: An R package to support plant trait data preprocessing

scientific article published in May 2024

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