Tree mortality from an exceptional drought spanning mesic to semiarid ecoregions.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2016-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/15-0330PMID 27209798
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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