Climate change in arid environments: revisiting the past to understand the future

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

سال: 2004

ISSN: 0309-1333,1477-0296

DOI: 10.1191/0309133304pp422oa