Scale matters: fire–vegetation feedbacks are needed to explain tropical tree cover at the local scale

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/GEB.12562
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