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Fire Regime and Tree Diversity in Boreal Forests: Implications for the Carbon Cycle

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Forest Diversity and Function

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Wirth, C. (2005). Fire Regime and Tree Diversity in Boreal Forests: Implications for the Carbon Cycle. In: Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Körner, C., Schulze, ED. (eds) Forest Diversity and Function. Ecological Studies, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26599-6_15

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