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Early snow melt and diverging thermal constraints control body size in arctic-alpine spiders

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Wehner, Alessa, Hein, Nils, Beckers, Niklas, Dobbert, Svenja, Pape, Roland, Löffler, Jörg (2023): Early snow melt and diverging thermal constraints control body size in arctic-alpine spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 138 (1): 1-13, DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blac127, URL: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/138/1/1/6849512

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