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Higuera, P.E. (2019). First- and Second-Order Fire Effects. In: Manzello, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8_258-1

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