The changing climate: Past, present, future

Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 9-56

  Quante, Markus ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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