Background Although the extent and severity of fires is linked to moisture content in live and dead plant material, the ranges of moisture content occurring in live foliage are poorly defined. The bio...

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Despite fire being one of the oldest and most important ecological disturbance processes on Earth, many aspects of fire–vegetation feedbacks are poorly understood, limiting their accurate representat...