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High litterfall in old-growth and secondary upper montane forest of Costa Rica

✍ Scribed by Lars Köhler; Dirk Hölscher; Christoph Leuschner

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
348 KB
Volume
199
Category
Article
ISSN
1385-0237

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