Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia
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Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA Centre for Bio-Archaeology and Ecology (UMR5059 CNRS/UM2/EPHE), Institut de Botanique, F-34090 Montpellier, France School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA QUEST, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK *e-mail: [email protected]
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