Decomposing the mid-Holocene Tsuga decline in eastern North America.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2012-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/11-2062.1PMID 22928413
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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