Is land abandonment affecting forest dynamics at high elevation in Mediterranean mountains more than climate change?

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology

• Publication date

  2013-02-12

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/11263504.2013.772081
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  Semantic Scholar

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