Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Ambio

• Publication date

  2011-09-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s13280-011-0179-8PMID 21954732PMCID PMC3357861
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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