Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions.

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

• Publication date

  2004-03-29

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/RSTB.2003.1433PMID 15212087PMCID PMC1693325
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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