A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2016-07-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/gcb.13275PMID 27090489
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