Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nature Climate Change

• Publication date

  2016-11-01

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  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/NCLIMATE3092
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