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February 2003
Forest fires: Lighting the way
In this week's Review Article, Mark Cochrane complains that the environmental importance of tropical forest fires has been periodically rediscovered and forgotten over the past century. Following the fires in Indonesia in 1983 there was a flood of new material in the literature. But much of it was merely an echo of work on fires in the African forests published in 1947 by French geographer André Aubrevillé. Cochrane draws the disparate strands of forest fire research together, and suggests how a more coherent approach might be developed.
Fire science for rainforests
MARK
A. COCHRANE
Nature 421, 913–919 (2003); doi:10.1038/nature01437
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