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    Kimberley Opie

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Opie, K. (2020). Slope and Terrain. 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_240-1

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