The changing landscape of wildfire: burn pattern trends and implications for California’s yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Landscape Ecology

• Publication date

  2018-06-07

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10980-018-0665-5
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