Correction: Are High-Severity Fires Burning at Much Higher Rates Recently than Historically in Dry-Forest Landscapes of the Western USA?
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The phrase " FIA data " incorrectly appears several times in the paper and in the legend for Table 1. The correct phrase is " early historical data. " Please see the corrected Table 1 below. access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Are High-Severity Fires Burning at Much Higher Rates Recently than Historically in Dry-Forest Landscapes of the Western USA?
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 10 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015