Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-09-19

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2015.0305PMID 27502371PMCID PMC4978864
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