Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire–climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

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

• Publication date

  2016-11-14

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1609775113PMID 27849589PMCID PMC5137681
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