Landscape development and climate change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-161

  Grunewald, Karsten ^a   Scheithauer, Jörg ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b Landscape Research Centre Dresden   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9959-4     Document Type: Book

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