Tropical forests and the changing earth system

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2006-01-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2005.1711PMID 16553317PMCID PMC1626535
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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