A model-based approach to wildland fire reconstruction using sediment charcoal records
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Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, U.S.A. Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A. Neptune and Company Inc., Durham, NC, U.S.A. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, U.S.A.
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