Comparing bark thickness: testing methods with bark–stem data from two South African fire‐prone biomes

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Vegetation Science

• Publication date

  2014-09-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/JVS.12171
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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