Insights from paleohistory illuminate future climate change effects on wetlands

Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-59

  Lepage, Ben A ^a,b   Jacobs, Bonnie F ^c   Williams, Christopher J ^d  

^a ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PECO Energy Company   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4494-3_1     Document Type: Chapter

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