Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Biogeography

• Publication date

  2016-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/jbi.12701
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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