C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2011-08-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature10274PMID 21814202
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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