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Hood, S.M., Varner, J.M. (2019). Post-fire Tree Mortality. 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_252-1

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