Vegetation and fire dynamics in southern Brazil during the late quaternary and their implication for conservation and management of modern grassland ecosystems

Grasslands: Ecology, Management and Restoration

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 181-194

  Behling, Hermann ^a   Pillar, Valério D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

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