Polar deserts

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 176-195

  Hogg, Ian D ^a   Wall, Diana H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

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