Bergwind fires and the location pattern of forest patches in the southern Cape landscape, South Africa

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  1994

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  Journal of Biogeography

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/2845603
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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