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23 Dec 2013
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Explosive demographic expansion by dreissenid bivalves as a possible result of astronomical forcing
M. Harzhauser
Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Paleontological Department, Vienna, Austria
O. Mandic
Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Paleontological Department, Vienna, Austria
A. K. Kern
State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Rosenstein, Stuttgart, Germany
W. E. Piller
University of Graz, Institute of Earth Sciences, Graz, Austria
T. A. Neubauer
Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Paleontological Department, Vienna, Austria
C. Albrecht
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Giessen, Germany
T. Wilke
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Giessen, Germany
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