Evaluation of the composite burn index for assessing fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  International Journal of Wildland Fire

• Publication date

  2008-08-28

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1071/WF08002
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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