Effects of permafrost degradation on alpine grassland in a semi-arid basin on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Yi, Shuhua ^a   Zhou, Zhaoye ^a   Ren, Shilong ^a   Xu, Ming ^a   Qin, Yu ^a   Chen, Shengyun ^a   Ye, Baisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

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EID: 81355150669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045403     Document Type: Article

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