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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Assessing rangeland health under climate variability and change

from Part III - Dealing with climate change effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

David J. Gibson
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Jonathan A. Newman
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Ontario
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