Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2011-12-19

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1118648109PMID 22184249PMCID PMC3271907
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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