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“Wet/dry Daisyworld”: a conceptual tool for quantifying the spatial scaling of heterogeneous landscapes and its impact on the subgrid variability of energy fluxes Cover

“Wet/dry Daisyworld”: a conceptual tool for quantifying the spatial scaling of heterogeneous landscapes and its impact on the subgrid variability of energy fluxes

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|Jan 2005

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Language: English
Page range: 175 - 188
Submitted on: Oct 26, 2004
Accepted on: Feb 4, 2005
Published on: Jan 1, 2005
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2005 Dennis D. Baldocchi, Theresa Krebs, Monique Y. Leclerc, published by Stockholm University Press
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