Guianan forest dynamics: Geomorphographic control and tropical forest change across diverging landscapes

Tropical Forests of the Guiana Shield: Ancient Forests in a Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 343-379

  Hammond, David S ^a  

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