Toward an old‐growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2015-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/140270
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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