Changing fire regimes and old-growth forest succession along a topographic gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Forest Ecology and Management

• Publication date

  2015-08-15

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.FORECO.2015.04.024
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