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Research Article

Spatio-temporal characterization of landscape fire in relation to anthropogenic activity and climatic variability over the Western Himalaya, India

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Pages 281-299 | Received 30 Aug 2020, Accepted 14 Jan 2021, Published online: 07 Feb 2021

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