Vegetation Zonation in a Neotropical Montane Forest: Environment, Disturbance and Ecotones

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  2011

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  Biotropica

• Publication date

  2011-09-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00735.x
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