Can fuel-reduction treatments really increase forest carbon storage in the western US by reducing future fire emissions?

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2012-03-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/110057
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