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Simulating Impacts of Ice Storms on Forest Ecosystems
Published on: June 30, 2020
Feature: Improving our knowledge of drought-induced forest mortality through experiments, observations, and modeling
Nate G McDowell1, Michael G Ryan2,3, Melanie J B Zeppel4
1Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
The New Phytologist
|September 21, 2013
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