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All issues Volume 66 / No 8 (December 2009) Ann. For. Sci., 66 8 (2009) 815 References
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Ann. For. Sci.
Volume 66, Number 8, December 2009
Article Number 815
Number of page(s) 11
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/forest/2009073
Published online 25 November 2009
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