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CHAPTER TWELVE - Grassland belowground feedbacks and climate change

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

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Richard D. Bardgett  and
Marina Semchenko
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David J. Gibson  and
Jonathan A. Newman
David J. Gibson
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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Grasslands and Climate Change , pp. 203 - 217
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