The portuguese experience in managing fire effects

Fire Effects on Soils and Restoration Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 401-422

  Ferreira, António J D ^a,b   Silva, Joaquim Sande ^a   Coelho, Celeste ^b   Boulet, Anne Karine ^b   Keizer, Jan Jacob ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

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