Tropical savannas and dry forests.

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2018-05-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.014PMID 29738723
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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