Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver
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Juli G. Pausas*, Jon E. Keeley and Dylan W. Schwilk CIDE-CSIC, Ctra. Naquera Km 4.5 (IVIA), Montcada, Valencia 46113, Spain; Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia Field Station, US Geological Survey, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; and Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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