The development of a climate: An arid continent with wet fringes

Invasion Biology and Ecological Theory: Insights from a Continent in Transformation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 256-282

  McLaren, Sandra ^a   Wallace, Malcolm W ^a   Gallagher, Stephen J ^a   Wagstaff, Barbara E ^a   Tosolini, Anne Marie P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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