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  Erb, Karl-Heinz, Thomas Kastner, Christoph Plutzar, Anna Liza S. Bais, Nuno Carvalhais, Tamara Fetzel, Simone Gingrich, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Maria Niedertscheider, Julia Pongratz, Martin Thurner, and Sebastiaan Luyssaert. “Unexpectedly Large Impact of Forest Management and Grazing on Global Vegetation Biomass.” Nature 553, no. 7686 (January 2018). https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25138.

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