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Parsimoniously modelling perennial vegetation suitability and identifying priority areas to support China's re-vegetation program in the Loess Plateau: Matching model complexity to data availability

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Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients

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Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

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Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

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Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

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