Subtropical forests

Routledge Handbook of Forest Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 46-55

  Corlett, Richard T ^a   Hughes, Alice C ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

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