Empirical assessment of state-and-transition models with a long-term vegetation record from the Sonoran Desert.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2012-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/11-0704.1PMID 22611843
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