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Original Articles

Lichenometric dating of little ice age glacier moraines using explicit demographic models of lichen colonization, growth, and survival

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Pages 21-41 | Received 15 Feb 2013, Accepted 16 Aug 2013, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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