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Climate and biodiversity – French Joe Canyon’s drought case

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Posted in Bits of Biodiversity, Bits of Climate, Bits of Ecology | Tagged biodiversity, climate change, desertification, deserts, drought, extinction, Freshwater Biology, Holocene Extinction, insects, rivers

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