Elevated CO2 as a driver of global dryland greening

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lu, Xuefei ^a   Wang, Lixin ^a   McCabe, Matthew F ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 84958051775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20716     Document Type: Article

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