Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2008-05-09

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1154913PMID 18467583
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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