Clarifying Terrestrial Recycling Pathways.

Trends Ecol Evol

Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GP, UK; Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa.

Published: January 2021

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