Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas
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Jos e D. Anad on*, Osvaldo E. Sala and Fernando T. Maestre Department of Biology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA; School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies, SARAS, Maldonado 20000, Uruguay; and Departamento de Biolog ıa y Geolog ıa, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnolog ıa, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, M ostoles 28933, Spain
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