Multi-decadal drought and amplified moisture variability drove rapid forest community change in a humid region.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/11-1068.1PMID 22624302
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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