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| Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data-based synthesis for the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum | Journal of Biogeography | 2000 | 321 |
| The effect of dietary nitrogen content on trophic level 15N enrichment | Limnology and Oceanography | 2000 | 287 |
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