The 2003 and 2007 wildfires in Southern California

Natural Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change

Volumn 9781107010161, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-52

  Keeley, Jon E ^a   Syphard, Alexandra D ^b   Fotheringham, C J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84910003903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511845710.007     Document Type: Chapter

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