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Michael Gottfried, Harald Pauli, Georg Grabherr, Prediction of Vegetation Patterns at the Limits of Plant Life: A New View of the Alpine-Nival Ecotone, Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Aug., 1998), pp. 207-221
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