Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2011-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/10-1684.1PMID 21661567
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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