Polar terrestrial environments

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 81-102

  Convey, Peter ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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