Forest responses to global change in North America: Interacting forces define a research agenda

Forestry and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 151-159

  Solomon, Allen M ^a   Freer Smith, Peter H ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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