Spatial complexity in fragmenting Amazonian rainforests: Do feedbacks from edge effects push forests towards an ecological threshold?

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  2012

• Venue

  Ecological Complexity

• Publication date

  2012-09-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ECOCOM.2012.03.002
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