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Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index

Climatic and Environmental Change in Northern Eurasia

D A Walker1, M O Leibman2, H E Epstein3, B C Forbes4, U S Bhatt1, M K Raynolds1, J C Comiso5, A A Gubarkov2, A V Khomutov2, G J Jia6, E Kaarlejärvi4, J O Kaplan7, T Kumpula8, P Kuss9, G Matyshak10, N G Moskalenko2, P Orekhov2, V E Romanovsky1, N G Ukraientseva2 and Q Yu3

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