Ecotones as complex arenas of disturbance, climate, and human impacts: The trans-andean forest-steppe ecotone of Northern Patagonia

Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 59-88

  Kitzberger, Thomas ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3797-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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