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Fire Ecology I

Rackham Fig. 9: Changes to incombustibility

Chestnut trees invading flammable grasslands Youngish chestnut-trees (Castanea sativa), which by their shade create an unburnt patch among flammable grassland. Liguria, Italy, March 1996.

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