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CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The future biogeography of C3 and C4 grasslands

from Part II - Species traits, functional groups, and evolutionary change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

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Elisabeth J. Forrestel  and
Erika J. Edwards
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Grasslands and Climate Change , pp. 234 - 252
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