Yellowstone fires and the physical landscape

After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 29-51

  Meyer, Grane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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