Desertification in the Sahel: a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation

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  2007

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2007-07-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01356.x
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