Long‐term change in sub‐alpine forest cover, tree line and species composition in the Swiss Alps

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Vegetation Science

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/jvs.12561
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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