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Incendios en ecosistemas del norte de Suramérica: avances en la ecología del fuego tropical en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú

  • 1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Bogotá). Facultad de Ciencias,Departamento de Biología. Grupo de Ecología del Paisaje y Modelación de Ecosistemas ECOLMOD. Bogotá, Colombia.darmenterasp@unal.edu.co*, tmgonzalezd@unal.edu.co, mmezae@unal.edu.co
  • 2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Bogotá). Facultad de Ciencias,Departamento de Biología. Grupo de Restauración Ecológica. Bogotá, Colombia. jovargasr@unal.edu.co
  • 3. University of Oxford.Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment. Oxford, UK. imma.oliveras@ouce.ox.ac.uk

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Armenteras, Dolors, González, Tania Marisol, Ríos, Orlando Vargas, Elizalde, María Constanza Meza, Oliveras, Imma (2020): Incendios en ecosistemas del norte de Suramérica: avances en la ecología del fuego tropical en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú. Caldasia 42 (1): 1-16, DOI: 10.15446/caldasia.v42n1.77353, URL: https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v42n1.77353

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