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Original Articles

Fire in the Atlantic Rainforest: an analysis of 20 years of fire foci distribution and their social-ecological drivers

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Pages 4737-4761 | Received 10 Sep 2020, Accepted 11 Feb 2021, Published online: 23 Mar 2021

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