Eliminating the “divergence problem” at Alaska’s northern treeline
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Eliminating the “divergence problem” at Alaska’s northern treeline M. Wilmking and J. Singh Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer Strasse 88, Greifswald University, 17487 Greifswald, Germany Received: 3 June 2008 – Accepted: 5 June 2008 – Published: 11 June 2008 Correspondence to: M. Wilmking ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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Divergence problem in Alaska
Eliminating the “divergence problem” at Alaska’s northern treeline M. Wilmking and J. Singh Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer Strasse 88, Greifswald University, 17487 Greifswald, Germany Received: 3 June 2008 – Accepted: 5 June 2008 – Published: 11 June 2008 Correspondence to: M. Wilmking ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the Europea...
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