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Researchers David Bowman and Jennifer Balch.
David Bowman of the University of Tasmania and Jennifer Balch of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Bowman and Jennifer led a large research time that synthesized many studies to produce "Fire in Earth Systems."
Credit: Randall Lamb, University of California at Santa Barbara, courtesy of Kavli Institute for Theoretical Phyiscs.
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