Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species’ Optimum Elevations

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2011-01-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1199040PMID 21252344
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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