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Andes Wildfires Degrade Soil, Stall Ecosystem Recovery
In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano ... Post-Fire Water Repellency and Soil Vulnerability One of the challenges identified in ...