Browsing and fire interact to suppress tree density in an African savanna.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2009-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/08-1907.1PMID 19831079
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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