Adaptation of biodiversity to climate change: An ecological perspective

What is Land For?: The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 189-212

  Hopkins, John ^a  

^a NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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