Wind as an Ecological Agent at Treelines in North America, the Alps, and the European Subarctic

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  2010

• Venue

  Physical Geography

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2747/0272-3646.31.3.203
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