Are Cedrus atlantica forests in the Rif Mountains of Morocco heading towards local extinction?

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  The Holocene

• Publication date

  2018-01-19

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0959683617752842
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