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Author Spotlight: Leaf Trait Analysis for Climate and Ecology Reconstruction in Modern and Ancient Plant Communities
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1Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. youjin_jang@hms.harvard.edu.
Journal of General Internal Medicine
|January 16, 2024
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