Climatic definitions of the world’s terrestrial biomes

Javier Loidi; Gonzalo Navarro-Sánchez; Denys Vynokurov

doi:10.3897/VCS.86102

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Vegetation Classification and Survey 3: 231-271
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.86102 (19 Dec 2022)

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