Woody cover in wet and dry African savannas after six decades of experimental fires

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  2015-03-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/1365-2745.12367
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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