Fire Severity in a Large Fire in a Pinus pinaster Forest is Highly Predictable from Burning Conditions, Stand Structure, and Topography

Olga Viedma, Juan Quesada, Iván Torres, Angela De Santis, José M. Moreno in Ecosystems (2015)

Ecosystems and its editorial staff are required to follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and consequently are obliged to notify the readership about an authorship dispute concerning this article.

Specifically, Dr. Lara A. Arroyo, whose name is in the acknowledgments of this article, and Dr. Rubén G. Mateo claim that they were not informed about the decision of publishing their work and that they should be in the list of authors.

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