@article{Kundel2018-03-22Desig-41902,
  year={2018},
  doi={10.3389/fenvs.2018.00014},
  title={Design and Manual to Construct Rainout-Shelters for Climate Change Experiments in Agroecosystems},
  volume={6},
  journal={Frontiers in Environmental Science},
  author={Kundel, Dominika and Meyer, Svenja and Birkhofer, Herbert and Fliessbach, Andreas and Mäder, Paul and Scheu, Stefan and van Kleunen, Mark and Birkhofer, Klaus},
  note={Article Number: 14}
}

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