Articles | Volume 11, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3505-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3505-2014
Research article
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03 Jul 2014
Research article |  | 03 Jul 2014

Variation in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic vegetation along edaphic and compositional gradients in northwestern Amazonia

M. A. Higgins, G. P. Asner, E. Perez, N. Elespuru, and A. Alonso

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