Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6PMID 29618821
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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