Forest response to climate change: Do simulations predict unrealistic dieback?

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 13-15

  Loehle, Craig ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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