Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species’ Optimum Elevations
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- 21 January 2011
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- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 331 (6015) , 324-327
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199040
Abstract
Many mountain plant species in California shifted downhill, tracking regional changes in water balance.Keywords
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