Burning issues: The history and ecology of managed fires in the uplands

Drivers of Environmental Change in Uplands

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 171-185

  Yallop, Adrian R ^a   Clutterbuck, Ben ^a   Thacker, Jonathan I ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 72549112319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203886724     Document Type: Chapter

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