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+    <title>Vegetation Ecology and Diversity</title>
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+      <name>Luciano Ludovico Maria De Benedictis</name>
+      <email>luciano.debenedictis@unicam.it</email>
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+      <name>Brian Stucky</name>
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+      <name>Teodor Georgiev</name>
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