Drastic environmental change and its effects on a planetary biosphere

Icarus

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 775-780

  Schulze Makuch, Dirk ^a   Irwin, Louis N ^b   Fairén, Alberto G ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Exobiology; Mars; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878522851     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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