Multifunctionality and Thresholds of Alpine Grassland on the Tibetan Plateau

Minghua SONG; Meng LI; Jiajuan HUO; Liang WU; Xianzhou ZHANG

doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764X.2020.03.003

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