Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2009-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/07-1755.1PMID 19323192
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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