The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2010-06-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1186925PMID 20522775
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