Criteria to identify old-growth forests in the Mediterranean: A case study from Sicily based on a literature review and some management proposals

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  2018

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  Feddes Repertorium

• Publication date

  2018-03-01

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  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/FEDR.201700009
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