Fire, death and disorder in the forest: 150 years of change in critical ecological structures and processes in boreal Scandinavia

Forest Biodiversity: Lessons from History for Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 55-65

  Ostlund L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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