Tropical forest biomass estimation and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Vegetation Science

• Publication date

  2012-12-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1654-1103.2012.01471.X
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