Ground ice melt in the high Arctic leads to greater ecological heterogeneity
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Michael S. Becker*, T. Jonathan Davies and Wayne H. Pollard Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street W, Montreal, QC H3A 0B9, Canada; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark; Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Doctor Penfield Avenue, Montreal, QC H3A 1B3, Canada; and African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
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تاریخ انتشار 2015