The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

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  2013

• Venue

  Nature Geoscience

• Publication date

  2013-12-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/NGEO1984
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