Correction: Climate-Driven Effects of Fire on Winter Habitat for Caribou in the Alaskan-Yukon Arctic
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Citation: The PLOS ONE Staff (2014) Correction: Climate-Driven Effects of Fire on Winter Habitat for Caribou in the Alaskan-Yukon Arctic. PLoS ONE 9(10): e112584. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112584 Published October 30, 2014 Copyright: 2014 The PLOS ONE Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Climate-Driven Effects of Fire on Winter Habitat for Caribou in the Alaskan-Yukon Arctic
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