Combined speeds of climate and land-use change of the conterminous US until 2050

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 811-816

  Ordonez, Alejandro ^a,b   Martinuzzi, Sebastián ^b   Radeloff, Volker C ^b   Williams, John W ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84906874970     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2337     Document Type: Article

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