Dominant factors controlling glacial and interglacial variations in the treeline elevation in tropical Africa

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2007-06-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0610109104PMID 17535920PMCID PMC1887610
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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