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How drought-induced forest die-off alters microclimate and increases fuel loadings and fire potentials

Katinka X. Ruthrof A E , Joseph B. Fontaine A , George Matusick A B , David D. Breshears C D , Darin J. Law C , Sarah Powell A and Giles Hardy A
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A School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.

B The Nature Conservancy, Georgia Chapter, Chattahoochee Fall Line Conservation Office, Fort Benning, GA 31905, USA.

C School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

D Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

E Corresponding author. Email: k.ruthrof@murdoch.edu.au

International Journal of Wildland Fire 25(8) 819-830 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF15028
Submitted: 29 January 2015  Accepted: 30 September 2015   Published: 2 February 2016



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