Effects of Climate and the Urban Heat Island Effect on Urban Tree Growth in Houston

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Open Journal of Forestry

• Publication date

  2017-08-31

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4236/OJF.2017.74026
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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