The reciprocal relationships between high latitude climate changes and the ecology of terrestrial microbiota: Emerging theories, models, and empirical evidence, especially related to global warming

Tundras: Vegetation, Wildlife and Climate Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-79

  Anderson, O Roger ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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