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4 - Changes in vegetation cover and implications for solute and sedimentary fluxes in cold climate environments

from Part II - Climate change in cold environments and general implications for contemporary solute and sedimentary fluxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Achim A. Beylich
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Norway
John C. Dixon
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas
Zbigniew Zwoliński
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University
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