Deep ground fires cause massive above- and below-ground biomass losses in tropical montane cloud forests in Oaxaca, Mexico

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Tropical Ecology

• Publication date

  2005-06-27

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1017/S0266467405002373
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