Agro-Ecological Class Stability Decreases in Response to Climate Change Projections for the Pacific Northwest, USA
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1 Department of Crop and Soil Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, 2 Northwest Sustainable Agroecosystems Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Pullman, WA, United States, 3 Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, 4 Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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