Has global environmental change caused monsoon rainforests to expand in the Australian monsoon tropics?

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Landscape Ecology

• Publication date

  2010-06-24

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10980-010-9496-8
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